Explain Anselm’s ontological argument. The ontological argument was put forth at first as a prayer by the eleventh century monk and philosopher Anselm of Canterbury. In his Proslogion‚ which means discourse‚ he presented this argument as a prayer for believers to substantiate their belief in god. Anselm uses ‘a priori’ (which means before experience) reasoning‚ which conveys that it does not rely or depend on experience and so an argument of this sort is more plausible and likely to intrigue and
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The Algebra of Infinite Justice by Arundhati Roy The Progressive magazine‚ December 2001 It must be hard for ordinary Americans‚ so recently bereaved‚ to look up at the world with their eyes full of tears and encounter what might appear to them to be indifference. It isn’t indifference. It’s just augury. An absence of surprise. The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around. The American people ought to know that it is not them‚ but their government’s policies‚
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Anselm`s view about God is that his existence in our minds proves the existence of him in reality. Trying to prove that he does not in fact exist‚ contradicts the purpose‚ since as attempting to convince others that he does not exist‚ you recognize his being. As you attempt to argue against God while completely understanding the meaning of God‚ you recognize this idea of the “greatest being”. About “the fool who says in his heart“ that God doesn’t exist‚ Anselm argues that there are two ways for
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Descartes argument for the existence of God is based on two main principles. This is the principle of sufficient reasoning and the principle of adequate reality. The principle of sufficient reasoning means that everything has a cause. The principle of adequate reality is followed by sufficient reasoning and means that there must be at least as much reality in the cause as the effect. An example of having at least as much reality in the cause as the effect could be studying for a test and receiving
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a) Explain Anselm’s ontological argument (25) Saint Anselm‚ the author of the book The Proslogian came up with what is believed to be the first formulation of the ontological argument. The writings of the ontological argument in The Proslogian were Anselm’s reflections of the passage Psalm 14:1 “Fools say in their hearts ’There is no god’” and directs his argument at the ‘fools’ From this passage. Ontology means the study of being so therefore Anselm’s argument is formulated to prove the existence
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Argument Essay - Animal Testing is necessary Is it really necessary to take the lives of animals in the name of science and for the betterment of humanity? For animal rights activists‚ like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)‚ the answer is no. PETA pressures labs into halting experiments‚ because they believe that animals are not to be used by humans for food‚ clothing‚ entertainment‚ or to experiment on (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Its stance is that any testing
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The idea of God has infinite reality and‚ by theory‚ the only cause of this infinite idea can only be God. With all this said‚ the reality of God is the only plausible cause to the reality of the idea of God. Descartes gives another proof in Meditation Five where he has reasoned that a triangle must have all the properties he assigns to it‚ because the triangle exists as an idea in his mind and he clearly and distinctly perceives all these properties. He then reasons‚ by analogy‚ that God exists as
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First Cause Argument Proves that God Exists.’ Do You Agree? The First cause‚ or cosmological‚ argument suggested by Thomas Aquinas is that everything that comes into being must have a cause. They can’t cause themselves‚ so they must be caused by something outside themselves. This chain can’t regress forever‚ so there must be a transcendent power that began the chain. That is god. Another argument‚ the Kalam Cosmological argument‚ states that everything that comes into being must have a
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The Existence of God & The Evil in us All 1- Does God exist? (Anselm vs. Gaunilo) (Bertrand Russell) Does God Exist? St.Anselm‚ Archbishop of Canterbury “The Ontological Argument” claims to both prove and disprove God’s existence. However this arguments possess a certain sense of ambiguity‚ meaning that it can be interpreted in different ways and therefore come away with more than one sensible conclusion towards the existence of God. In this paper i will delve in to each argument and give reasons
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ideas of the Design Argument for the existence of God The design argument explicates many fundamental ideas in order to achieve evidence for the existence of God; its ideas are concluded by scholars such as Aquinas (analogy of the archer)‚ Paley (analogy of the watch) and Tennant (anthropic principle). They use analogies and principles to draw arguments to their conclusions to the existence of God. The argument is teleological; it aims to prove that everything that God has designed has an
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