Anselm’s Argument for God’s Existence

This video lecture discusses Anselm's proofs for God's existence.

For Anselm, God does not just exist, but God “truly and necessarily” exists so that it is impossible for us to think that He does not exist. According to Melchert, this apparently simple, yet deeply perplexing argument is called in the history of philosophy as ontological argument.
Anselm’s ontological proof of God’s existence, which he developed in his famous work titled Proslogium, begins with a definition of God. But the idea of definition here does not necessarily refer to the “idea” of something as produced by experience. By “definition” Anselm means our rather abstract conception of God when we utter the word God.

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[ashley_brown]

My argument is this:
1) People don't usually talk or think about things that don't exist
2) When they do talk or think about things that don't exist (such as a movie character or a fantastical superhero) these concepts are fueled by a temporal cause (such as a person's own imagination or a movie/book etc) -a cause that is NOT generalized in all mankind and will soon die out -so people will soon stop talking and thinking about it.
3) Therefore, if God didn't exist, people wouldn't be talking or thinking about the concept of God so much, since the beggining of mankind and throughout ages and civilizations -the cause of their thinking would be temporal and would soon die out.
2) But people HAVE been talking and thinking about God VERY much since the beggining of mankind and throughout ages and civilizations, so the cause of their thinking MUST not be temporal, but eternal.
3) Therefore, God exists.

Great video, please make more videos with arguments for God. Thanks again

[Churchmilitant]

St. Anselm's theory makes perfect sense from a theological perspective. If God created human beings than how can a created being understand COMPLETELY not only their Creator but the Creator of reality itself? 🤔

[Captain-Cosmo]

It is a possible that in the far and distant future a sufficiently advanced civilization discovered the true nature of the universe and traveled back in time to create the universe. No god required.

[colinburgess]

a unicorn is the most horse-with-a-hornlike thing that you can think of. nothing can be more horse-with-a-hornlike, therefore unicorns exist

[gowdsake]

Arguments are NOT evidence they are an excuse for a lack of evidence

[yasmineduenas]

The video sound is pretty good, beyond my imagination

[nsp]

Christian philosopher William Lane craig has a video on this topic.
Just type DRCRAIG VIDEOS-ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS.
And probably the most influential Christian philosopher of this era Alvin Plantinga believed that it is sound

[Kunu]

Mam while doing video pls mentioned the importance statment and books of that philosopher

[nguyenhai]

Very good and funny videos bring a great sense of entertainment!

[Martin_Z]

anselm's "logic" is the most absurd bunch of bull**** ive ever heard

[edwinicogo]

God is a being greatest that can be conceived, blah, blah to infinity, therefore god exist.