Anselm is a medieval philosopher. His most well-known work today is his Ontological Argument for God.
Anselm is a medieval philosopher. His major contribution to philosophy was his Ontological Argument as proof of God.
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How does Anselm define justice
The concept of justice occurs frequently in Anselm's writings. On his view (e.g. in 'Cur Deus Homo') it is perfectly just for God to condemn a sinner for the least offence to eternal Hell on the Day of Judgement. This fits awkwardly with modern…
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How does 'having an idea of something' differ from 'mental existence'?
Source: pp 38-39, Philosophy: A Complete Introduction (2012) by Prof Sharon Kaye (MA PhD in Philosophy, U. Toronto)
Perhaps the problem lies in Anselm's twofold conception of
existence. Anselm sets out to prove that God has being-in-reality
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Is imaginative resistance evidence against, or for, moral fictionalism?
There's an entry in the SEP called "Imaginative Resistance" which goes over an account of a problem with our ability to entertain moral counterfactuals:
The phenomenon of “imaginative resistance” refers to psychological difficulties otherwise…
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Anselm and being "apt to will"
I am reading Anselm's On the Fall of the Devil, and I encountered an odd bit of language that I can't quite wrap my head around. In Chapter 12, Anselm (through a religious teacher) attempts to argue that we have two wills, one for happiness and one…
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Debunking Anselm's Ontological Argument
In a nutshell, Anselm's Ontological Argument states that given a God defined as "a being than which none greater can be imagined" it follows that this God must exist.
It seems to me that this argument can easily fall apart with the following…
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Anselm's Ontological argument for the existence of God. Am I getting it right?
Is Anselm's decisive point for the existence of God the fact that in order for a thing (idea , etc) which exists in the 'realm of understanding' to be paramount (supreme) it has to exist in reality as well? Anselm's argument purports that the fool…
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The Ontological Argument and Kant's Critique
Do you think Plantinga's claim that Anselm does not use existence as a predicate/attribute in his proof is consistent? I don't think it's quite right. Because Plantinga himself states that Anselm uses existence as one of the great-making properties.…
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