The question of God’s existence has been debated through the history of man, with every philosopher from Socrates to Immanuel Kant weighing in on the debate. So great has this topic become that numerous proofs have been invented and utilized to prove or disprove God’s existence. The ontological proof, the cosmological proof, and the teleological proof are the three main divisions. No true answer has been found, but in the Western world people tend to agree with one of these three “proofs” of God.
The Ontological Argument, which argues from a definition of God’s being to his existence, is the first type of argument explored. Since Saint Anslem founded this argument, his writings are the most examined. Saint Anslem starts by defining God as an all-perfect being, or rather as a being containing all conceivable perfections. Now if in addition of possessing all conceivable perfections this being did not possess existence, it would then be considered less perfect from a being......
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