Anselm of Canterbury was a theologian and philosopher from the 11th and 12th centuries who came up with a rather ingenious argument for the existence of God, which is usually called the ontological ...

God is by definition a perfect being. It is more perfect to exist than to not exist. Therefore, God exists. Just given these simple ideas, a few axioms, and a fondness for pushing around abstract ...

This essay examines anew the conflicting positions of St. Anselm and Kant regarding the possibility of proving God's existence by the technique of the Ontological Argument. It is intended (a) to do ...

In the 11th century, St. Anselm was archbishop of Canterbury in England. He endeavoured to form a logical and rational argument supporting the existence of God. His argument came to be called the ...

Anselm of Canterbury was one of the greatest thinkers of the Middle Ages whose work was crucial in the revival of logic and philosophy in the Medieval West. Using logical argument, Anselm created a ...

Every year, I teach the classic theistic arguments in my philosophy of religion class. We start with the “ontological” argument in Anselm’s Proslogion. Steeped as it is in monastic and biblical prayer ...

1. L'argument ontologique n'a pas cessé d'être d'actualité. — 2. Le problème des relations entre la foi et la raison chez saint Anselme peut être résolu par le recours à un rationalisme modéré, qui ...

The Ontological Argument is quite a way down the list of subjects with which I would have thought I would get absorbed. But I did. The notion of a medieval Benedictine monk from Italy, via France, ...