(October 25, 2017 at 7:21 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(October 25, 2017 at 2:12 pm)SteveII Wrote: In case anyone wants to know the actual argument in an easy-to-understand way. And it is not true that you "could use anselms argument to "prove" any idea you happened to have no matter how fanciful."
The argument presented in this video is the modal ontological argument, which is a completely different argument than the classic argument from Anselm. That you seem incapable of distinguishing the two is quite disturbing. Regardless, the subject of this thread is Anselm's argument. If you want to discuss the modal ontological argument, I suggest you create a separate thread for it.
It represents the latest philosophical thought on the ontological argument first developed by Anselm. Why wouldn't you discuss the latest? Anyway, I don't really care one way or another. Hadn't intended on defending either iteration -- just trying to help since most people here don't understand it and the video helps.
