Anselms Other Argument

Author : Arthur David Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674725042
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anselm’s Other Argument written by Arthur David Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Brian Leftow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192650890
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anselm's Argument written by Brian Leftow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anselm of Canterbury gave the first modal "ontological" argument for God's existence. Yet, despite its distinct originality, philosophers have mostly avoided the question of what modal concepts the argument uses, and whether Anselm's metaphysics entitles him to use them. Here, Brian Leftow sets out Anselm's modal metaphysics. He argues that Anselm has an "absolute", "broadly logical", or "metaphysical" modal concept, and that his metaphysics provides acceptable truth makers for claims in this modality. He shows that his modal argument is committed (in effect) to the Brouwer system of modal logic, and defends the claim that Brouwer is part of the logic of "absolute" or "metaphysical" modality. He also defends Anselm's premise that God would exist with absolute necessity against all extant objections, providing new arguments in support of it and ultimately defending all but one premise of Anselm's best argument for God's existence.

Author : A. D. Smith
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726855
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anselm’s Other Argument written by A. D. Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anselm of Canterbury (1033–1109 CE), in his work Proslogion, originated the “ontological argument” for God’s existence, famously arguing that “something than which nothing greater can be conceived,” which he identifies with God, must actually exist, for otherwise something greater could indeed be conceived. Some commentators have claimed that although Anselm may not have been conscious of the fact, the Proslogion as well as his Reply to Gaunilo contains passages that constitute a second independent proof: a “modal ontological argument” that concerns the supposed logical necessity of God’s existence. Other commentators disagree, countering that the alleged second argument does not stand on its own but presupposes the conclusion of the first. Anselm’s Other Argument stakes an original claim in this debate, and takes it further. There is a second a priori argument in Anselm (specifically in the Reply), A. D. Smith contends, but it is not the modal argument past scholars have identified. This second argument surfaces in a number of forms, though always turning on certain deep, interrelated metaphysical issues. It is this form of argument that in fact underlies several of the passages which have been misconstrued as statements of the modal argument. In a book that combines historical research with rigorous philosophical analysis, Smith discusses this argument in detail, finally defending a modification of it that is implicit in Anselm. This “other argument” bears a striking resemblance to one that Duns Scotus would later employ.

Author : Richard Campbell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004363661
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Anselm's Arguments written by Richard Campbell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines Anselm’s famous arguments for the existence of God. It demonstrates how he validly deduces from plausible premises that God exists most truly of all. The standard criticisms are shown to be based on misreading the text.

Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349007730
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ontological Argument written by Jonathan Barnes and published by Springer. This book was released on 1972-06-18 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521002059
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Anselm written by Brian Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-02 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4J/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cur Deus Homo? written by Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Logan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135190664X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Anselm's Proslogion written by Ian Logan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anselm’s Proslogion has sparked controversy from the time it was written (c.1077) to the present day. Attempts to provide definitive accounts of its argument have led to a wide and contradictory variety of interpretations. In this book, Ian Logan goes back to basics, to the Latin text of the Proslogion with an original parallel English translation, before tracing the twists and turns of this controversy. Helping us to understand how the same argument came to be regarded as based on reason alone by some and on faith alone by others, as a logically sound demonstration by its supporters and as fatally flawed by its opponents, Logan considers what Anselm is setting out to do in the Proslogion, how his argument works, and whether it is successful.

Author : Toivo J. Holopainen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004426663
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Historical Study of Anselm’s Proslogion written by Toivo J. Holopainen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Historical Study of Anselm's Proslogion , Toivo J. Holopainen offers a new overall interpretation of Anselm’s Proslogion by providing a historical explanation for the distinctive combination of argument and devotion that this famous treatise exhibits.

Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ontological Argument from St. Anselm to Contemporary Philosophers written by Alvin Plantinga and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A selection of readings from Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Schopenhauer and, from modern philosophers, G.E. Moore, William P. Alston, J.N. Findlay, Charles Hartshorne, Morman Malcolm, Alvin Plantinga, and Paul Henle"--Cover.