Anselm's Proslogion | Ontological Argument for God's Existence | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Anselm's work, the Proslogion, and examines the portion of the "single argument" (unum argumentum) that would later come to be labeled as the "ontological argument" for God's existence. This starts from a characterization of God as "that than which a greater cannot be thought" (quo maius cogitari non possit), and the distinction between being or existence in the mind (in intellectu) and in reality (in re), to argue that God must exist.

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