 In Hartshorne’s view, the importance of the ontological argument is to establish that God could not exist contingently. He calls this “Anselm’s principle.” If Anselm’s principle is correct then if it is possible for God to exist, then God necessarily exists. In Hartshorne’s view, Anselm failed to make a convincing case for God’s existence because he failed to show that his concept of God is coherently conceivable. Indeed, Hartshorne believes that matters are much worse for Anselm since he considers Anselm’s form of theism to be incoherent, as we have seen. Hartshorne believes that the other arguments in his own global argument make the case for God’s possible existence. Contingent beings require a divine necessary being (cosmological); cosmic order implies a divine cosmic ordering power (design); reality should be construed as the actual content of divine knowledge (epistemic); the supreme aim in life is to contribute to the divine life (moral); and there is a beauty of the world as a whole that only God can enjoy (aesthetic). The structure of Hartshorne’s argument is reminiscent of the elaborate case made by John Duns Scotus in De Primo Principio. Of course, the God whose existence Hartshorne seeks to establish is one that “the subtle doctor” would find unacceptable.