Uma defesa contemporânea do argumento ontológico hegeliano

Abstract

The ontological arguments for the existence of God are some of the most controversial arguments in the history of philosophy. Although the argument inaugurated by Anselm of Canterbury had great historical defenders, such as René Descartes, Gottfried Leibniz and Kurt Gödel, it also had important names among the objectors, such as Thomas Aquinas, David Hume and Immanuel Kant. In this paper, I intend to fill the lack of attention to the writings of G.W.F. Hegel on the ontological argument. I will argue that the Hegelian formalization of the ontological argument is able to overcome some of the classical and contemporary objections that are raised to the ontological argument, thus enabling the resurgence of a strong argument for the existence of God.