Ontological argument asserts God's existence from "summary" of Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant
The ontological argument is an attempt to prove the existence of God based solely on the concept or idea of God. It argues that if we can conceive of a perfect being, then such a being must necessarily exist in reality. This argument relies on the premise that existence is a necessary attribute of perfection. According to the ontological argument, God is defined as a being that possesses all perfections. Since existence is a perfection, it follows that God must exist. The argument is often formulated in the following way: if God is defined as the most perfect being imaginable, then existence must be one of the perfections that God possesses. Cri...
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