The Dialectical Appropriateness of Ontological Arguments
After, for some reason or other, spending some 30 dense pages of
Logic and Theism on the laughable ontological arguments of Descartes and Spinoza, Sobel moves on to the more interesting argument advanced by Anselm. (The next chapter deals with versions of the argument set in modern modal logic, such as those of Hartshorne and Plantinga.) In my view, the Descartes and Spinoza arguments don't even look good; the Anselm version at least produces puzzlement, insofar as the reasoning looks valid, yet it seems, intuitively, that no such strong conclusion could ever be derived from such weak premises.
Sobel (fairly uncontroversially...
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Topic(s):
Alvin Plantinga
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Anselm
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Dialectic
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Existence of God
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Gaunilon
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Historical Thinkers
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Jordan Howard Sobel
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Logic
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Ontological Argument
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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