Episode #020 ... Two Medieval Approaches To God
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Kant's Ontological Argument - God Is That Than Nothing Greater
God is that than which nothing greater can be thought. But why, necessarily, is something that exists in reality greater than something that doesn't exist in reality? That sounds a lot like a bias inherent in a human that values existing over not existing. The second thing kant said is that anselm is wrong to think of existence as a quality, as something. For example, you can't think of a banana as being yellow, thin, calory dense and existing. Ity of existence is not the same type of thing as the quality of yellow. In fact, kant would say existence is not even a quality,. ecause without existence, the banana wouldn't have the ability
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