Anselm's Proslogion | Divine Attributes and Simplicity | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Anselm's work, the Proslogion, and examines his discussion in chapters 14, 18, and 23 of divine simplicity, further developing the "one argument" and the logic of "that than which nothing greater can be thought". God's simplicity is beyond what we understand as simplicity of created things, and means that every thing that God is, is the same as every other thing God is. This simplicity extends as well into the divine trinity.
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[@MrMarktrumble]

Thank you. While you have mentioned this topic before, I do not recall you going into so much detail. It is very useful for a more precise analysis of simplicity. It is ironic that at the moment, I am reading the critique of pure reason by Kant. If this theology is really the analysis of the concept of simplicity then Kant might say it is an analytic truth, and each of the divine attributes do not add any new knowledge. I am committed to completing this reading of the critique from beginning to end. However, I have always been attracted rational theology, and like to contemplate the inner workings of the godhead. May Achilles catch the tortoise someday, and complete the calculus of the infinitely shrinking distance, whose limit is identity or simplicity.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're not going to have much luck mixing Kant in with Anselm. The basic structures of their works and ideas are too different to do that without massively distorrting one of them