confirmation. In the third chapter of the DCD Anselm presup- poses the existence of a good and a bad will‚ and says that transgression happens when the good will remains passive (while it does have the capacity to resist actively) when the bad one interferes.19 The angel did not will something that he already possessed‚ and because all he had was given from God‚ he did not will something that was given by God himself. By this he abandoned justice and
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Anselm and Aquinas Can god exist in this world? To both Anselm and Aquinas he did exist both had their own way of showing it but both decided to write about it. Saint Anselm served the church as a prior‚ abbot‚ and Archbishop; he was from Aosta‚ Italy and was born around 1033. Thomas Aquinas a scholar priest was born in Roccasecca‚ Italy around 1224. These men lived 200 years apart but had the same feeling that God did exist. They believed so much in God that they both were men of the church. In
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issue to this day! In the following I will commit myself to the above-mentioned question by firstly reconstructing Anselm´s proof of God´s existence and secondly considering his position in the light of the critique put forward by Gaunilo‚ Aquinas and Kant. St. Anselm (1033-1109) was an Italian philosopher and monk who later left his country to become Archbishop of Canterbury. As Anselm firmly believed in God‚ he wanted to prove God´s existence through use of logic and reason and thus set out to demonstrate
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ST. ANSELM OF CANTERBURY (1033-1109) “If you can find a place where God is not‚ Go there and sin with impunity.” Meaning: God‚ the Creator of Heaven and Earth‚ is everywhere. There is no place that one can sin with impunity...except in his mind...where the evil one is deceiving him. God sees and knows all and cannot be deceived. So‚ one cannot sin - even in the depths of his heart - without God knowing. He was an Italian theologian and philosopher. He was also a priest who became the Archbishop
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Art Goes further than its representation. Michelangelo Pistoletto‚ and “The Etruscan” 1976. Roxy Paine‚ and “conjoined “ 2007. Bill V iola‚ and “The Greeting” 1995. Anselm Kiefer‚ Buch mit Flügeln the (Book with Wings)‚ 1992 and The Ash Flower(1984). The Etruscan is a great work of art. The style of this piece is widely recognized and in many ways is a symbol of power‚ ingenuity and social lifestyle that was very present in the history of the Greeks and romans. When you approach it in its secluded
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“Proslogion” it comes from Chapter 2 in particular. Anselm of Canterbury wrote the “Proslogion”‚ he is writing an argument about if God truly exists. At the same time‚ Anselm is explaining how and why God is “something-than-which-nothing-greater-can-be-thought”. Anselm is arguing for one of the most famous versions of the “ontological argument for the existence of God‚” which was an argument based purely on the logic of God’s way of being. In this passage‚ Anselm is speaking to God. He is speaking to God
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To what extent does Gaunilo’s criticism of Anselm’s argument succeed in demonstrating that the argument fails? Gaunilo‚ a Benedictine monk and contemporary of St Anselm was the first to raise objections to Anselm’s idea that God exists by definition‚ claiming within “On behalf of the Fool” that Anselm’s argument was not logical and needed to be discredited. Gaunilo famously claimed that Anselm’s conclusion that the non-existence of God is “unintelligible” cannot show that God necessarily exists
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AO1: Explain Anselms Ontological argument. Anselm wanted to prove the existence of God‚ so he proposed the ontological argument. The ontological argument is deductive‚ and uses a priori reasoning. This means that it starts with a statement that is known to be true solely through definition (God is the greatest conceivable being) and develops the implications of this statement in order to reach a reasonable conclusion. The deductive reasoning allows him to simply showing what the definition means
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This essay aims to outline the Ontological Argument‚ proposed by Anselm of Canterbury‚ to prove the existence of God (in particular the Christian God). It also discusses Gaunilo’s objection to the ontological argument with the use of the “Lost Island” analogy. And finally offers an opinion as to whether or not Gaunilo’s objection successfully refutes Anselm’s argument. Anselm’s ontological argument‚ sourced from the “Proslogium” (with himself as the author)‚ is a highly controversial argument
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deductive‚ analytic and a priori‚ and was first formed by St. Anselm‚ who prayed for a short argument that would prove God to be “that than which nothing greater can be conceived”. This prayer was called the proslogion and tried to prove God by means of reductio ad absurdum‚ which states that the existence of God is logically necessary. The argument is based on the word “God”‚ a being that possesses all perfections‚ therefore must exist. Anselm was aware that the existence of God is denied by atheists
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