Q&A: Proof of God's Existence
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Proof of God's Existence
Question
I haven’t yet read all the material the Rabbi wrote on this topic. I just have one specific question. What do you say about an argument like this: God, by definition, is a perfect being (even for an atheist, that is the definition), and if so, it is clear that He exists, because otherwise He would not be perfect.
Answer
This is a sloppy formulation of Anselm’s argument. I discussed it at great length in the first lecture of The First Existent.