Immanuel Kant argued that this position is necessary to guarantee that virtue necessarily leads to happiness, given enough time to attain that highest good.
Immanuel Kant argued that this position is necessary to guarantee that virtue necessarily leads to happiness, given enough time to attain that highest good. RenÃ© Descartes used this position to justify the truth of clear and distinct ideas. The teleological argument for this position is sometimes described with the analogy of a watchmaker. Thomas Aquinas included the first mover and the first cause as two of his "five ways" of justifying this belief, rejecting Anselm of Canterbury's ontological argument for this belief. Opponents of this belief often invoke the problem of evil. For 10 points, identify this philosophical position positing that there is a higher power, rejected by atheists.
Immanuel Kant argued that this position is necessary to guarantee that virtue necessarily leads to happiness, given enough time to attain that highest good.
belief in the existence of God [accept obvious equivalents]