{"id":789,"date":"2023-11-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/?p=789"},"modified":"2023-10-27T12:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T19:20:01","slug":"the-ontological-argument-for-the-existence-of-god-by-robert-mayhew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/03\/the-ontological-argument-for-the-existence-of-god-by-robert-mayhew\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ontological Argument for the Existence of God by Robert Mayhew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p>Anselm of Canterbury (11th century) was the first to present the ontological argument, purporting to demonstrate God\u2019s existence through a mere analysis of the definition of God. Aquinas rejected the argument, but Descartes revived it. Kant was thought by many to deliver it a death blow, but it continues to be resuscitated. This lecture is an exercise in philosophical detection: Dr. Mayhew will present the argument and then explain Objectivism\u2019s unique reasons for rejecting it as not merely false, but as an absurd rationalization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recorded at OCON 2023 in Miami, Florida<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anselm of Canterbury (11th century) was the first to present the ontological argument, purporting to demonstrate God\u2019s existence through a mere analysis of the definition of God. Aquinas rejected the argument, but Descartes revived it. Kant was thought by many to deliver it a death blow, but it continues to be resuscitated. This lecture is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[406,485,216,54,12,333,113],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-podcast","tag-atheism","tag-god","tag-life","tag-metaphysics","tag-philosophy","tag-reality","tag-reason","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arilive.aynrand.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}