Anselm's Other Argument

✍ Scribed by A. D. Smith

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 249
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS OF ANSELM’S WORKS
INTRODUCTION
1 THE MODAL ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
2 ANSELM’S UNDERSTANDING OF CONCEIVABILITY
3 ANSELM’S UNDERSTANDING OF POSSIBILITY
4 THE PROSLOGION III ARGUMENT
5 ARGUMENTS IN THE REPLY TO GAUNILO
6 ANSELM’S OTHER ARGUMENT
7 AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ARGUMENT
APPENDICES
NOTES
REFERENCES
INDEX

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