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Speaking of his "favorite arguments for belief" \-\- namely, "the argument from order and the argument from what Kant called the _+summum bonu{_}mbonum+ and \[he calls\] the rational aim: what rational beings could reasonably accept as the final purpose of their existence and activity" \-\- Hartshorne says: "I am not saying, Unless God exists life has no meaning or rational aim and the cosmos no order. I am sure life has meaning and the cosmos order. I am saying that I can understand how there is meaning and order only by believing in God as enriched by our experiences" ("Our Knowledge of God": 60, 62).