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St. Anselm's Ontological Argument from Philosophical Perspectives

points which are "1) God is defined as the being in which none greater is possible; 2) It is true that the notion of God exists i...

The Ontological Argument of St. Anselm of Canterbury

In five pages the life and theological hypothesis that reflects the views and the work of Canterbury's St. Anselm are reviewed. F...

Gaunilo's Response to Saint Anselm's Ontological Argument on God's Existence

In six pages this paper examines how Gaunilo philosophically responded to St. Anselm's Proslogion as it featured his argument on G...

Anselm’s Ontological Arguments

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

Arguments in Philosophy

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

Thomas Aquinas' Work

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

Nature of the Soul and the Theories in Phaedo by Plato

must pay for such without question. In Crito, we see Socrates pretending that the laws are coming to talk to him. They say to him...

Religion, Faith, and the Ontological Argument

In five pages this paper discusses the ontological argument and its impact upon faith and religion with scientific philosophical o...

Wives Who Tire of or Become Bored with Their Mates

In five pages this paper examines why wives grow tired of their husbands and leave them in an application of a philosophical argum...

Philosophy and Ontology

In seven pages this paper discusses St. Anselm, Aristotle, and Heidegger in a consideration of the relationship between philosophy...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

Letter to the Editor and Utilitarian Philosophy

In two pages this paper is structured as a letter to the editor and considers capital punishment form a utilitarian philosophical ...

God's Existence and the Design Argument

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

Proof Of God's Existence

broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

Dark Night of the Soul and Interior Castles

imperfections, habitual natural and spiritual, and which is called by contemplatives infused contemplation, or mystical theology" ...

Cantos 11 and 12 of Dante's 'Paradiso'

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...

God's Existence and Rene Descartes' Meditation III

conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...

Analysis of God's Existence

In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...

God's Existence and 3 Arguments

In nine pages this report examines argument from design, ontological and cosmological arguments regarding God's existence. Seven ...

The Philosphy of God

a perfect idea has to have been placed in the human mind by a perfect being or God, which is equivalent to Descartes Third Meditat...

Overview of the United States Virgin Islands

John is largely a national park. St. Thomas boasts a deepwater harbor. St. Croix has rolling hills. All three are special touri...

European Middle Ages Architecture, Art, and Classical Antiquity

In five pages the influence of classical antiquity on the architecture and art of the European Middle Ages are considered in the a...

Compare and Contrast: San Francisco and Saint Louis

of Asia within San Francisco. One finds themselves, a few short blocks from the business district of the city, smack dab in the mi...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

Slave Owners in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Tom rescues his daughter (Little Eva) from a drowning death. St. Clare is one who believes in paying his debts and, in fact, promi...

Existence of God and Philosophical Proof

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

Saint Anselm and the Noncontradiction Laws

In five pages this paper discusses Saint Anselm's 2 proofs regarding the God concept and the noncontradiction laws along with thes...