The interpretation of the ontological argument in Charles Hartshorn's philosophical theology

The article conceptualizes and analyzes the interpretation of the ontological argument in the works of the American thinker Charles Hartshorne. It is shown that in the context of presenting his modal-logical version of the ontological argument, Charles Hartshorne proceeds from the fact that the success of any ontologically oriented arguments depends on demonstrating the logical possibility of the concept of God, that is, its internal consistency. Process theism and neoclassical metaphysics, the principles of which become the starting point for the formulation of the ontological argument by Charles Hartshorne, are for him the conditions for developing a concept of God that is not affected by the internal antinomies of “traditional” theism. Only on the basis of a consistent concept of God can an ontological argument be postulated with a prospect of success, since otherwise it will fall prey to the positivist fundamental criticism ab ovo . A variant of Charles Hartshorne’s ontological argument prompts to consider the consequences of using language from the point of view of the possibility and necessity of the existence of God, when the question of the actual existence of God should not be understood in the sense of a contingent mode of existence.