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Proofs Of The Existence Of God

Summary/Abstract: The ontological argument, the cosmological argument, the argument of eternal truths and the argument of pre-established harmony are four types of evidence of God's existence recognized by Russell in Leibnitz's learning. The old (ontological) proof of Anselm proceeding from the idea of God as „that of which nothing that would be greater cannot be conceived” (aliquid quo nihil maius cogitari possit), Leibnitz tends to do „stricter one”, first indicating that God is possible at all - this time as a subject of all perfectness, where the existence itself is only one of them. In the cosmological argument we have that Aristotle's unmoved mover, as the (original)-cause of all existing in the series, here is updated by a properly Leibnitz's addition: the principle of sufficient reason. Next Leibnitz's distinction of contingent from eternal truths „ends” both times in divine mind – for the cause of contingent things cannot be contingent itself – so that, in knowing, one knows not else than God, here being esse = percipi. Finally, in the case of pre-established harmony it's a matter of a power laid down in advance into each of the substance-monad making them to „unfold” their activities and whose other name would be - God.

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