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AQA-7062-1-RELIGIOUS STUDIES FINAL MARK SCHEME PAPER 1:Philosophy of Religion and Ethics-A LEVEL-Jun24-v1.0. Question 1 0 1 . 1 Examine Anselm’s ontological argument for the existence of God. [10 marks] Target: AO1.1: Knowledge and understanding of religion and belief, including religious, philosophical and/or ethical thought and teaching. Note: This content is indicative rather than prescriptive and students are not obliged to refer to all the material contained in this mark scheme. Any legitimate answer will be assessed on its merits according to the generic levels of response. Anselm holds that God’s existence can be deduced from his definition. Anselm defines God as ‘a being than which nothing greater can be conceived’. The claim that ‘God exists’ is a priori / deductive: it can be known to be true without reference to sense experience simply by thinking about God’s nature. In the proposition ‘God exists’, the subject, ‘God’, contains the predicate ‘exists’, so God must exist. God’s existence is a necessary truth, and not a contingent one. Anselm develops his argument by suggesting that even a fool can understand the definition of God as ‘a being than which nothing greater can be conceived’, even though the fool does not understand it to exist in reality. There is a clear difference between having an idea in the mind and knowing that this idea exists in reality. For example, a painter has an idea of what to paint, but only when it has been painted can the painter see that the idea now exists both in the mind and in reality. From this, Anselm goes on to claim that it is greater to exist both in the mind and in reality than to exist only in the mind. If God existed only in the mind, then one could think of something greater, namely a God who existed in reality and who possessed every great-making quality. Anselm concluded that in order to be the greatest conceivable being, God must exist both in the mind and in reality

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Mark schemes are prepared by the Lead Assessment Writer and considered, together with the relevant
questions, by a panel of subject teachers. This mark scheme includes any amendments made at the
standardisation events which all associates participate in and is the scheme which was used by them in
this examination. The standardisation process ensures that the mark scheme covers the students’
responses to questions and that every associate understands and applies it in the same correct way.
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