On Locke’s demonstration of the existence of God

This paper offers a reconstruction of Locke’s (often neglected) demonstration of the existence of God, presented in Book IV of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and provides with an extensive analysis of initial steps of it. Both lead to the conclusion that, assuming plausibility of other parts of Locke’s philosophy, especially his reserved philosophy of mind, and his modern „way of ideas,” this demonstration turns out to be rather disappointing from the very beginning