Anselm And Aquinas On God’s Existence
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Anselm And Aquinas On God’s Existence
Anselm and Aquinas on God’s existence
Anselm and Aquinas views on God’s existence are different arguments trying to find out the same thing, does god exist? And if so what is he? The following will be a comparison and contrasting essay about Anselm and Aquinas views on god. I mostly agree with Anselm on the topic of that if god were to exist that he would have to be greater than anything conceived although I think Aquinas argument that if everything has the possibility of not being, then at sometime nothing exists and there would be nothing now, is too weak to merit my support. First I will explain the premises of Anselm and Aquinas, then evaluate the premises of each, compare and contrast Anselm and Aquinas arguments, and finally put my view on the issue.
One of the premise of Anselm’s ontological argument is, that god is that witch nothing greater can be conceived. He is stating that god is all greatness and is perfect, that he is the best, the most worthy. Anselm says that god is the greatest, if there was a way to describe an example of it wouldn’t be god anymore, because he says that you cannot conceive anything better than god.
Another premise of Anselm’s ontological argument is that, god exists at least in our understanding. When he means in our understanding he means our mental existence or in thought. He is saying that if we think of something that is god then he exists in our brain because we have thought of him in the first place. An example if I think of a place where the grass is liquorish, then it has to exist at least in my mind because I have thought of it in the first place.
Next, the premise that, if god existed only in the understanding, we could think of something greater than god. What he means here that something that exists both in understanding and in real existence is greater than something that only exists in thought. An example is that having fun is great in thought and it is greater if it was also true in actuality....