Anselm's Ontological Argument And The Philosophers
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Anselm's Ontological Argument and the Philosophers
Saint Anselm of Aosta, Bec, and Canterbury, perhaps during a moment of enlightenment or
starvation-induced hallucination, succeeded in formulating an argument for God's existence which has
been debated for almost a thousand years. It shows no sign of going away soon. It is an argument
based solely on reason, distinguishing it from other arguments for the existence of God such as
cosmological or teleological arguments. These latter arguments respectively depend on the world's
causes or design, and thus may weaken as new scientific advances are made (such as Darwin's
theory of evolution). We can be sure that no such fate will happen to Anselm's Ontological
Argument (the name, by the way, coined by Kant).
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