Logic and Existence
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چکیده
I am going to talk today about the ontological argument for the existence of God as formulated by the 11th Century Archbishop of Canterbury, St. Anselm. I want to assure you in advance that I have not chosen this topic because I think the ontological argument is especially persuasive. In fact when I first heard the argument at college from some of my fellow students, I thought they were pulling my leg. I thought it was a kind of parody of philosophy. And I still find it remarkable that so many important philosophers--Descartes, Spinoza and Leibniz in previous centuries, and Hartshorne and Malcolm in our own, have thought that commitment to a religious life could be justified by some questionable formal manipulations with murky concepts like existence and perfection. But I do think that thinking about the ontological argument and some of the classical objections to it is an excellent way of thinking about the themes--logic and existence--that I chose for the title of this talk and that I want to think about during my stay at the Institute.
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