Objections to OA
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- Created on: 24-11-14 17:37
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- Counter arguments about definition
- "The ideas of greatest and supreme perfection are meaningless"
- Anselm does not mean greater in size but greater in value
- Anselm means God is the greatest possible being, nothing could be superior to God
- "We cannot define God" - Aquinas
- Anselm's definition is not a positive definition
- It does not say what God is like
- It simply says that God is greater than anything we can conceive.
- Descartes did not actually define God
- As an imperfect being himself he could not have thought up the concept of a "supremley perfect being"
- So, the definition must have come from the perfect being Himself
- So the definition must be correct
- Anselm's definition is not a positive definition
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- "Knowing the word God is not the same as knowing God"
- Anselm believed that faith and reason aided each other in understanding the nature of God
- the argument may help a person to develop a greater understanding of God and lead them to know God
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- Many see Anselm's Proslogion as a prayer to God to aid faith rather than as argument for the existence of God
- Anselm believed that faith and reason aided each other in understanding the nature of God
- Paul Tillich
- God is not a being as this would limit him
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- "The ideas of greatest and supreme perfection are meaningless"
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