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Ideas for 'Material Beings', 'Cratylus' and 'Brain Bisection and Unity of Consciousness'

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28. God / A. Divine Nature / 2. Divine Nature

13783	Even the gods love play [Plato]
	Full Idea: Even the gods love play.
	From: Plato (Cratylus [c.377 BCE], 406c)

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / b. Ontological Proof critique

17573	There is no reason to think that mere existence is a valuable thing [Inwagen]
	Full Idea: There is no reason to suppose - whatever Saint Anselm and Descartes may have thought - that mere existence is a valuable thing.
	From: Peter van Inwagen (Material Beings [1990], 12)
	A reaction: This is one of the simplest and most powerful objections to the Ontological Argument. God's existence may be of great value, but the existence of Hitler wasn't.