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The Existence Of God - Online Term Paper

The Existence Of God

has been argued because there has been no direct proof, but the numbers of people that have faith in God has given the argument for existence some merit. This paper is going to explain Anselm's argument for , criticisms against it, and how he would try to disproof these criticisms.
To begin Anselm states that this concept is agreed upon: God is a being to which none greater can be conceived. This is vital to Anselm's argument, which will be evident in his later statements. His first statement is that he accepts the fool's statement that God exists in the understanding and not reality. Next he gets the fool to agree that an existence in reality is greater than existence in ...

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Hence it is false that God exists in the understanding but not in reality. This is evident from all of the previous statements.
By granting the fool's statement as true he's setting up the fool to contradict himself. He then leads the fool to a statement that he cannot deny. He says that the existence in reality would be greater than the existence in understanding alone. This statement cannot be denied because through reason there are more advantages in reality than only existing in understanding. He then moves along the same line to get the fool to agree that it is possible to conceive that a being could have God's properties and exist in reality. By doing this, the fool now has a major problem. Anselm comes to the conclusion, that from the first two statements that the fool has agreed to, that a being having all of God's properties plus existence in reality is greater than God. The fool's argument is destroyed in Anselm's next statement. A greater being than God can now ...

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Added: 2/16/2008 01:06:47 AM
Category: Religion
Type: Free Paper
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