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Anselms Ontological Argument
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As a theologian and philosopher, Saint Anselm strove to prove the existence of God in reality. The bulk of his argument is found in Chapter II of Proslogium.
Anselm begins by defining God as “a being than which nothing greater can be conceived”. He continues by stating that “e ....
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....efinition of God. He asserts that nothing greater can be conceived that is not God and that if a mind could conceive of a being better than God, that creature would rise above God. In Chapter V Anselm proceeds to deduce God’s nature from the same basic definition of Him as something greater than which cannot be thought. He arrives as all the standard attributes: “just, truthful, blessed, and whatever it is better to be than not to be”.
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