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  Free Essay The Ontological Argument
In the year 1098, the monk/arch-bishop/philosopher Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) began work on his third text the Prosologium.
Though he had written at length before, primarily on interpretative doctrines of religious theology, in the Prosologium he attempted a bold new task.
This is literally the argument presented in the Prosologium:
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 Ontological Argument [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
But to the extent that existence doesn't add to the greatness of a thing, the classic version of the ontological argument fails.
As it turns out, there are two different versions of the ontological argument in the Prosologium.
The second version does not rely on the highly problematic claim that existence is a property and hence avoids many of the objections to the classic version.
www.iep.utm.edu /o/ont-arg.htm   (6211 words)

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