DQ#7 1-2 pages on one of the arguments of the existence of God.(Due Fri.3/7)
DQ#8 1-2 pages discussing "The Problem of Evil" (Due Fri.3/14-last day)

-God is omnipotent
-God is good
-There is evil

"God does not exist" is contradictory
-Anselm

-God doesn't exist=God only exists in your mind.
-But God is the Greatest Conceivable Being, a being that only exists in the mind is not the GCB.
-(-1)=1, therefore(God doesn't exist is contradictory)= God must exist

Bertrand Russel:believed this argument for 2 2weeks

Objections:
1. Gaunillon's Greatest Conceivable Island objection: a reductio argument aimed at Anselm ...if Anselm's argument worked it's same form can be used to prove anything

"An argument which can prove anything proves nothing"

Anselm's Reply:
My argument only works for "being" in general, not kinds of beings.

The argument works for (GCB) not GCX.

2.Maybe the "concept" of God is... contradictory

Paradox of omnipotence " could god create a rock so heavy that he himself could not lift it?"

3.Existence isn't a property(Kant)
Thing: My Car, exist or doesn't
20yrs. old
runs good
yellow
dirty

Concept:a.description(properties)
b.Is this instantiated?