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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

The Ontological Argument

Hooray, it's time for some real philosophy. And what better place to start with real philosophy than the annoying and biased sophisms of intellectual saints? We will begin with Saint Anselm's unfortunatly famous Ontological Argument; apparently this is what is required to be a saint...This is from my reader from a philosophy class, it's essentially what the Ontological Argument is, though Anselm wasted much more than 3 pages on explaining something that is apprently a priori, but we'll get to that good stuff in due time. For now read, I'll post up the relevant meaning and context of this, and then hopefully questions will be asked, answered, and we will move on to the criticisms (Kant!...one day you too will want to put that exclamation point there); and then on to some real Hume(!) and Kant(!). But patience, it's useless if we don't understand the simple shit...

Sorry if some of the pages are crooked, you'll live, I don't know how to do that ocr shit anyway...if you click on the pages you can read them in uber big font cuz theyre too small as they are...





2 comments:

The W said...

what is it you dont like about his reasoning?

Jasper Yate said...

in good time...