The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

properties. It has only essential properties, each of which is therefore eternal (beginningless, endless, changeless), like the ...

without possessing some goods, and this calls (1) into question, as well as sitting uneasily with the judgment that Buddha must ...

Ganeri, Jonardon. 2001. Philosophy in Classical India. New York: Routledge. Glasenapp, Helmuth von. 1971. Buddhism: A Non-Theist ...

FOR FURTHER READING Good general works on the style and substance of Indian philosophicoreligious thought include Matilal (1985) ...

We believe [God] to be something than which nothing greater can be thoughtThe Foolwhen he hears“something than which nothing gre ...

possible being, possibly someone or other nondivine refers to it. If that's so, then possibly something is greater than x only i ...

simple and being x must be the same attribute. But then any simple being will be identical to x. So there can be at most one sim ...

But Anselm's argument doesn't require his ontology. One could instead read (1) in light of non-Anselmian semantic assumptions. S ...

The controversial premise here is of course (3). There are two cases to consider here: W = @ and W ≠ @. For the first, I support ...

item depending on the G could depend on it so thoroughly that it could not exist without the G's causal support. So via “perfect ...

I doubt on exegetical grounds that Anselm actually means to give this argument. But as Proslogion 3 has led some to this argumen ...

Now (8) asserts not just that it's possible that a G exist, but that it's possible that a G exist necessarily. What this means, ...

Anselm's Real Argument While Anselm probably did not intend (6)–(10), he did develop the first modal argument from perfection, i ...

Let's say that W1 is actual, and relative to W1, W2 is possible. Our G, God, exists only in W2. So actually, God does not exist. ...

end p.91 Gaunilo and Parody Shortly after Anselm published the Proslogion, Gaunilo of Marmoutiers replied with a parody of the P ...

can or could have, parallel arguments from perfection will work for all possible Gods, yielding more Gods than monotheists want. ...

simply to ignore it. Perhaps, then, one can so tweak Anselm's property of greatness as to make parody difficult. Here an objecti ...

state of almost deserving worship (almost duplicating God). This doesn't entail that there's no maximum state of deserving almos ...

So the last-epicycle parodic argument doesn't go through. On the other hand, almost- Gods make harder the epistemic problem moda ...

Existence can no more be separated from the essence of God than the fact that its three angles equal two right angles can be sep ...