Being as Event. On Some Prerequisites for the Proof of God in Anselm of Canterbury
Abstract
ln recent discussions on Anselm’s ontological argument, it is made the assumption that Anselm holds “existence” to be a first order predicate. However, there is no explicit statement in Anselm’s texts that confirms this interpretation. In Thomas Aquinas and his predecessors, the logic of subject and predicate is applied on Anselm’s argument. Anselm himself has no logic of “existence”. The exact meaning and function of the expression “existence” is therefore to be investigated by an interpretation of its actual use in the argument itself. I propose that Anselm views existence to be an event, and that the term "maius" can best be interpreted as a relation between different kinds of events.Downloads
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