What Is Anselm S Argument For The Existence Of God
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Anselm’s Other Argument
Author: Arthur David Smith
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2014-03-10
Some commentators claim that Anselm’s writings contain a second independent “modal ontological argument” for God’s existence. A. D. Smith contends that although there is a second a priori argument in Anselm, it is not the modal argument. This “other argument” bears a striking resemblance to one that Duns Scotus would later employ.
The Ontological Argument
Philosophical discussion of the theories of Kant, Descartes, Quine and Frege, which consider the meaning of God and the nature of existence
Anselm's Argument
Anselm of Canterbury gave the first "ontological" argument for God's existence as necessary. Yet philosophers have mostly neglected to examine what modal concepts he uses, and what their metaphysical basis is. Brian Leftow sets out Anselm's modal metaphysics, and defends all but one premise of Anselm's best argument for God's existence.