Archbishop of Cantebury (1033-1109)‚ is the originator of the ontological argument‚ which he describes in the Proslogium as follows: [Even a] fool‚ when he hears of … a being than which nothing greater can be conceived … understands what he hears‚ and what he understands is in his understanding.… And assuredly that‚ than which nothing greater can be conceived‚ St. Anselm‚ Archbishop of Cantebury (1033-1109)‚ is the originator of the ontological argument‚ which he describes in the Proslogium as follows: [Even
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Theology – Mr. Mayemba Kate Foote 12Ben - Explain the objections of Gaunilo and Kant to the ontological argument. Gaunilo and Kant both had objections to Anselms ontological argument. While Kant argued that the problem in the argument lay in it’s claim that existence is it’s predicate‚ Gaunilo argued that there must be something wrong with it even though he could not identify a specific fault. Kant argued that existence cannot be a predicate because it does
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Anselm’s ontological argument is a priori proof of God’s existence. Anselm begins his argument with ideas that do not depend on experience and progress to a throughly logical explanation that God necessarily exists. Anselm’s goal is to prove to the "fool" that God has to exist. He says that anyone who has an understanding of the existence of God can and logically has to believe that God really does exist. Anselm starts off with a statement that is slightly simple and straight forward;
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The ontological argument proposed by Anselm‚ in Anselm’s Proslogion is a priori argument‚ meaning it does not start from a feature of the world but rather a definition of God. It seeks to move from a definition of god to the reality of god by reasoning. The first line in Anselms ontological argument is “the fool says in his heart there is no god”‚ from this Anselm can deduce that the fool has an understanding of what god is .The fool has to admit that god is that than which nothing greater can
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different arguments to validate his belief that God did indeed exist. Those arguments are still used today in the debate of God’s existence. The first argument Aquinas created is the “Argument from motion.” This argument was based on the fact that objects in motion had to be set in motion by a different source. An object could not set itself in motion. Therefore‚ the world could not have simply appeared out of nowhere. Someone (God) had to have created it. The strength of this argument is that the
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Ontological Argument of St. Anselm St. Anselm was a philosopher who proposed the first ontological argument in Western Christian tradition back in 1078 through his work Proslogian. An ontological argument is “an argument aiming to prove the existence of God through just thought of God alone” (Timmons 439). St. Anselm believed the definition of God to be‚ “That than which nothing greater can be conceived.” While Anselm argued God’s existence was purely through introspection‚ it can be disputed that
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This paper will seek to summarize and analyze Richard Taylor’s "cosmological argument." In the cosmological argument as presented by Richard Taylor he states that there is an explanation behind everything regardless of whether it is teleological or not‚ and that the universe requires an explanation. This is known principle of sufficient reason. In his argument he states: “-there is some explanation for the existence of anything whatever‚ some reason why it should exist rather than not. The sheer
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The Teleological Argument is the argument from a design stand point. The argument implies that a higher source of intelligence had to come up with the design in which the universe came into existence. McCloskey come up with numerous reason against this argument that suggest the Teleological Argument is not adequate in proving God exist. A design must have a designer and us as humans couldn’t create the earth ourselves even if we put all our thinking caps together‚ the creator of this world had to
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The Australian philosopher Douglas Gasking perhaps best articulates what I am trying to say in his formulation of the ontological argument. He argued God’s creation of the universe is the greatest achievement imaginable. Just how great this achievement is depends on the quality and degree that the Creator was impaired. The greater the impairment the greater
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that Anselm’s ontological argument is sound and his conclusion logically follows from his premises. I will consider an objection towards Anselm’s definition of God and show that it is unconvincing and flawed. The objection against Anselm’s ontological argument that I will consider will be one brought up by a contemporary of Anselm‚ Gauinilo. His objection was that if you were to take Anselm’s logic of existence then you can infer anything into existence (essentially parallel arguments). I shall consider
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