Anselm

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Religion

 

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Benjamin W

 

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September 26, 2013

 

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(P, preface) That "single argument" is the one that appears in chapter 2 of the Proslogion. (We owe the curiously unhelpful name "ontological argument" to Kant. The medievals simply called it "that argument of Anselm's" [argumentum Anselmi].) The argument goes like this. God is "that than which nothing greater can be thought"; in other words, he is a being so great, so full of metaphysical oomph, that one cannot so much as conceive of a being who would be greater than God...
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(We owe the curiously unhelpful name "ontological argument" to Kant. The medievals simply called it "that argument of Anselm's" [argumentum Anselmi].) The argument goes like this. God is "that than which nothing greater can be thought"; in other words, he is a being so great, so full of metaphysical oomph, that one cannot so much as conceive of a being who would be greater than God...
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