Proslogion

The belief in something out of the universe is what helps most people continue on with their day. It may be hard for some to believe that they are only on this planet, living, just to die one day. Therefore, many turn to religion to seek a hope in an afterlife in which they can exist after death. However, believing in most religions means believing in something in charge of the universe. Something, or someone, that is practically supernatural, and supremely powerful. Thomas Nagel, in his text What

Does God Exist? The existence of God is a question that has troubled and plagued mankind since it began to consider logic. Is there a God? How can we be sure that God exists? Can you prove to me that He is real? Does His existence, or lack thereof, make a significant difference? These loaded questions strike at the heart of human existence. But the real question is, can we answer any of them? These questions are answered in the arguments of St. Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal and St. Anselm of

existence of God based on pure reason alone. They attempt to show that we can deduce God’s existence from, so to speak, the very definition of God. St. Anselm of Canterbury proposed the first and most well known ontological argument in 1078 in his Proslogion, but it was actually Immanuel Kant, an 18th century German philosopher, who first called the argument “ontological.” In his argument, Anselm defines God as “that than which nothing greater can be conceived.” This can be interpreted as defining

In Proslogion, Anselm states that God is "a being than which none greater can be thought" (pg 73). He believes that God is truly the highest and greater being. Even for someone who does not profess God, the atheist; they too are making reference to God without fully understanding God. He believes that God exits even if we believe or not and admit it or not. This understanding is clear, however, Anselm has some questions. He believes God to be supreme but he questions it all and wonders who is God

A Christian Nation Through the Eyes of a Son of Indian Immigrants Nobody can truly realize the influence Christianity has on daily life around the world quite like one who can be considered an “outsider”. My parents are Sikh immigrants from the Punjab region of India. Even being raised in a Sikh family, I was always familiar with the religion. Our school breaks were scheduled around Christian holidays, we said the Lord’s Prayer before all of our football games, and I was even taken to church, where

The first chapter of Anselm 's Monologian focuses on Anselm 's argument that there is something that is the best, the greatest, the highest, of all existing things. It is through this unknown something that all things possess their goodness. According to the argument he puts forth, the goodness of things in this world must be caused and must therefore stem from one thing that is good, or from many. If goods can be comparable as goods, it follows that there must be some general and unified way of

Marlo Louden Intro to Philosophy Prof. Altilio 14 July 2015 Saint Anselm’s Ontological Argument The debate over the existence of God has been going on for, quite literally, thousands of years. Whether it was a Christian God or Pagan gods, there were always those who didn’t believe or would refute the existence of these gods. Despite one’s stance on religion, it is known that churches and monasteries in the past were some of the key places for development of education, and even philosophy. Those

theology. Anselm’s conception of God is vital for his corpus, because he will rely on his stated ideas about God throughout all his other works. This doctrine of God, entailing the Trinity, is found within two of his works: Monologion and Proslogion. Conceived while at Bec,

The ontological argument was thought of by Anselm of Canterbury. It is a priori argument, meaning that it is based on deductions and self propositions. The main issues concerned with the ontological argument is that once you have an idea of what God is in your mind, and what kind of being God is, can you see that it is impossible for God not to exist? Anselm defined God as "that than which nothing greater can be thought". He said that it is logically absurd to think that such a being does not exist

Essay to Compare and evaluate two philosophical arguments for the existence of God. Throughout the course of this essay we shall examine two of the major philosophical arguments for the existence of God. The arguments that we are going to focus on shall be the Design argument and the Ontological argument. We shall compare, evaluate and discuss both the Design (or teleological) argument for the existence of God and the Ontological Argument for the existence of God, as well as highlighting philosophical