Anselm’s Other Argument

Anselm’s Other Argument
Author: Arthur David Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674725042

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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.

Anselm's Argument

Anselm's Argument
Author: Brian Leftow
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2022
Genre: God
ISBN: 019289692X

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"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"--

Anselm’s Other Argument

Anselm’s Other Argument
Author: A. D. Smith
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-03-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674726855

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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.

Rethinking Anselm's Arguments

Rethinking Anselm's Arguments
Author: Richard Campbell
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 547
Release: 2018-07-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004363661

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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.

The Ontological Argument

The Ontological Argument
Author: Jonathan Barnes
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 105
Release: 1972-06-18
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1349007730

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The Cambridge Companion to Anselm

The Cambridge Companion to Anselm
Author: Brian Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2004-12-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521002059

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Reading Anselm's Proslogion

Reading Anselm's Proslogion
Author: Ian Logan
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 135190664X

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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.

A Cosmological Reformulation of Anselm’s Proof That God Exists

A Cosmological Reformulation of Anselm’s Proof That God Exists
Author: Richard Campbell
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 503
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004184619

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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.

Cur Deus Homo?

Cur Deus Homo?
Author: Saint Anselm (Archbishop of Canterbury)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1909
Genre: Atonement
ISBN:

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God, Belief, and Perplexity

God, Belief, and Perplexity
Author: William E. Mann
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0190459204

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This volume presents fourteen of William E. Mann's essays on three prominent figures in late Patristic and early medieval philosophy: Augustine, Anselm, and Peter Abelard. The essays explore some of the quandaries, arguments, and theories presented in their writings. The essays in this volume complement those to be found in Mann's God, Modality, and Morality (OUP, 2015). While the essays in God, Modality, and Morality are primarily essays in philosophical theology, those found in the present volume are more varied. Some still deal with issues in philosophical theology. Other essays are aporetic in nature, discussing cases of philosophical perplexity, sometimes but not always leaving the cases unresolved. All the essays display, directly or indirectly, the philosophical influence that Augustine has had. His Confessions is a rich source for philosophical puzzlement. Individual essays examine his reflections on the alleged innocence of infants, which raises questions about cognitive, emotional, and linguistic development; his juvenile theft of pears and its relation to moral motivation; and his struggle with and resolution of the problem of evil. One essay presents the rudiments of an Augustinian moral theory, rooted in his understanding of the Sermon on the Mount. Another essay illustrates the theory by discussing his writings on lying. Mann argues that Abelard amplified Augustine's moral theory by emphasizing the crucial role that intention plays in wrongdoing. Augustine bequeathed to Anselm the notion of "faith seeking understanding." Mann argues that this methodological slogan shapes Anselm's "ontological argument" for God's existence and his efforts to explicate the doctrine of the Trinity.