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Author: Arthur David Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2014-03-10
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0674725042
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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
Published: 2022-03-31
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0192650890
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Jonathan Barnes
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1972-06-18
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 1349007730
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Campbell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-07-23
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 9004363661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Ian Logan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 135190664X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Brian Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-12-02
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780521002059
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Author: Daniel A. Dombrowski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-05-29
Total Pages: 12
ISBN-13: 1139457144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics have been criticised by philosophers working in both the analytic and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have primarily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional, and problematic, concept of God. In this volume, Daniel A. Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a contemporary theistic metaphysics. Relying on the thought of Charles Hartshorne, he builds on Hartshorne's crucial distinction between divine existence and divine actuality, which enables neoclassical defenders of the ontological argument to avoid the familiar criticism that the argument moves illegitimately from an abstract concept to concrete reality. His argument, thus, avoids the problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static.
Author: Guy Jackson
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-09-25
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 3031415353
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anselm's ontological argument is one of the most fascinating, most controversial, and most misunderstood arguments in the entire history of Western thought. By centring the argument firmly in the Neoplatonic tradition within which Anselm was writing, Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument sheds fresh light and clarity on this enigmatic piece of philosophy. It argues that, far from resting upon a fallacy or illegitimately attempting to define God into existence, Anselm's argument is a powerful and plausible philosophical proof, and deserves to be taken seriously as such. Written to be understandable for specialists and non-specialists alike, Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument is ideal for scholars and researchers in philosophy of religion and philosophy in the Middle Ages (especially Neoplatonism) as well as for medievalists in general.
Author: Richard Campbell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 9004184619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this book, Richard Campbell reformulates Anselm’s proof to show that factual evidence confirmed by modern cosmology validly implies that God exists. Anselm’s proof, which was never the “ontological argument” attributed to him, emerges as engaging with current philosophical issues concerning existence and scientific explanation.
Author: Robert Brecher
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13:
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