Nice talk -- making some good points about Anselm's text as a whole. The "unum argumentum" or Proslogion is clearly not just chapter 2-4, which people like to interpret as "the ontological argument", but rather the whole of the Proslogion, minus perhaps the last three chapters, which Anselm calls "conjectures". The goal of the "unum argumentum" encompasses proving that God does exist, but also that God is the supreme good, and "all the other things we believe" about God
Excellent discussion, as usual. I use your video on Aquinas ‘five ways’ in my philosophy class. To be fair, Anselm engages Gaunilo’s criticisms directly as presented.
Dr.Kilby is speaking of elegance, and I thought that she herself is elegant! Well done.
Nice talk -- making some good points about Anselm's text as a whole.
The "unum argumentum" or Proslogion is clearly not just chapter 2-4, which people like to interpret as "the ontological argument", but rather the whole of the Proslogion, minus perhaps the last three chapters, which Anselm calls "conjectures".
The goal of the "unum argumentum" encompasses proving that God does exist, but also that God is the supreme good, and "all the other things we believe" about God
Excellent discussion, as usual. I use your video on Aquinas ‘five ways’ in my philosophy class.
To be fair, Anselm engages Gaunilo’s criticisms directly as presented.