This document highlights all the key aspects of the Ontological Argument. It details both the information and the evaluation points, in a clear, concise and aesthetic way.
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Anselm lived in Christian monastic culture
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a
proof
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He
ontological the
form of faith
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developed as a
seeking understanding following experience (Barth)
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a
religious
Said who strives to lift him mind to the
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.
he was one
contemplation of God and who seeks to understand
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what he believes
His presented prayerful meditation to
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argument is as a
God who revealed to Anselm in this
religious experience
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which
nothing greater
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that he is that than can be
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conceived
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He responds Fool of Psalm 14 who declares There
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to the
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is no God
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Anselm thinks this is absurd (self contradictory)
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like
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saying a
really existing God doesn't exist
The context is important Anselm
operating
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was in a
Christian Culture The he
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reasoning uses is based on
the idea that created in God's
humans are
image
with the
ability to reason .
This reason is limited as we
cannot reach the absolute truth known
by God .
Anselm asks God in the pros to
gion to
enlighten him
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about the simple for God's existence His
one
argument .
comments in the of of the
book are more an
analysis
concept of the Christian God rather than proof of his
existence .
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