RE: The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God
December 15, 2015 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2015 at 2:49 pm by Cyberman.)
(December 15, 2015 at 12:37 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote:(December 15, 2015 at 11:31 am)Jenny A Wrote: I think "the most fully expresed actuallity" is a term in need of definition.
Yeah, very much this. It is only when you are trying to define something of which you have no actual experience that a descriptor like this is even tempting. Same goes for "maximally great". It is obvious that you are reaching for something highly abstract which in no way "must exist".
It's really very simple. A "maximally great" being is one with "the most fully expressed actuality". What does "the most fully expressed actuality" mean? Why, it means "maximally great", of course!
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
