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Anselm's Discovery

  • Paperback
  • 348 pages
  • Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

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For students and lovers of deep philosophy

Unpacks the logic behind the famous divine proof

Builds your confidence in the reason for your faith

A brilliant examination of Anselm’s classic argument for God’s existence, offering a fresh perspective on faith and reason.

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Did Anselm, in his "Ontological Argument" (first advanced around 1070), make one of the greatest intellectual discoveries of all time, or did he merely fall into an interesting blunder? In his day, Anselm was criticized by Gaunilo. Subsequent philosophers have generally considered Gaunilo's criticisms to be weighty. Descartes' attempt to resuscitate Anselm's argument led to Kant's supposed refutation, which most later philosophers have considered to be fundamentally sound. Charles Hartshorne has brought back the "Ontological Argument" as a major problem of modern philosophical analysis, and "Anselm's Discovery" has been described as his most systematic exposition of the history of the subject. According to Hartshorne, generations of philosophers have read Anselm superficially, and have failed to see that Anselm presented two forms of the Argument, the second involving a genuine conceptual breakthrough.
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  • Title

    Anselm\'s Discovery

  • Author

    Charles Hartshorne

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.

  • Published

    June 1965

  • Weight

    514g

  • Page Count

    348

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780875482170

  • ISBN-10

    0875482171

  • Eden Code

    1167753