Anselm — Faith seeking understanding and an argument for existence
The question that opens it
Does the concept of the greatest conceivable being entail that it exists in reality as well as thought?
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The Proslogion argues from “that than which nothing greater can be conceived” within a prayerful project of faith seeking understanding.
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Saint Anselm
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2.1 Faith Seeking Understanding; §3 The Proslogion
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Debate continues over whether the reasoning illicitly defines something into existence, offers a modal argument for necessary being, or functions primarily as meditation.
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Saint Anselm
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §3.1–§3.5, reconstructions and objections
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