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Classical Stuff You Should Know

198: The Proslogion

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Christianity, Education, Books, Religion & Spirituality, Arts

4.5696 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The Proslogion contains Anselm of Canterbury's Ontological Argument, which is still argued about in philosophical circles today. It's not really convincing, except that it is.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know a podcast about I do this every time and I can never I don't know what to say. What are we about?

0:17.8

We talk about stuff. We talk about stuff. That's classical. And you should know it.

0:22.2

My name is Thomas Smagby.

0:24.3

I'm joined as always by Mr. A.J. Hanenberg.

0:24.9

That's me.

0:26.2

And Mr. Graham Donaldson.

0:26.4

Hey.

0:32.4

Now, today we are talking about something that I don't have a witty comment to make about it.

0:41.9

I've really nailed it on this introduction. I didn't know what our podcast was about. It's going really well. And I also don't, I know the name of what your episode is about. I have no idea how to make a pun about it.

0:47.5

Not that I usually make puns anyway. We are here to talk about, like a medical condition from the sounds of it. Yeah. The ontological argument? Yeah. I thought we were talking about the proslogion. Yes. Both. Yes. Answer is yes.

0:54.6

But I've got a bad case of ontology.

0:56.6

So you got to see an ontology.

0:59.7

You got to see an ontologist.

1:00.8

Yeah.

1:01.4

It's wonderful.

1:02.6

AJ, this is your...

1:03.4

That's a ripe pun field right there.

1:05.5

Which one is?

1:06.3

You have to go see an ontologist.

1:07.4

This is good.

1:07.9

I like this.

1:08.4

Okay. AJ, this is your episode. So would you take it away?

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