Anselm and the Problem of Ostending God

IF 0.7 1区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1353/hph.2023.a902876
Chad Engelland
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abstract:Kripke raises the question concerning how the reference to God might be fixed, and Augustine makes it the leading question of the Confessions: How can I call upon God and not someone else instead? In this paper, I argue that this question is the central concern of Anselm's Proslogion, which explicitly adopts the dialogical form of Augustine's Confessions. Anselm does not define God but instead fixes the reference to God through an ostension or indexical description. The same linguistic formulation, "God is that than which nothing greater can be thought," has three functions: as an ostension, it points out God as that being and not another; as a criterion for selection, it ostensibly picks out a referent that exists rather than not; finally, as a rule for analysis, it provides a principle to clarify the necessary properties of the God that has been so ostended.
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安塞尔姆与上帝的表象问题
摘要:克里普克提出了一个关于如何固定对上帝的提及的问题,奥古斯丁将其作为《忏悔录》的主要问题:我如何才能呼唤上帝,而不是其他人?在本文中,我认为这个问题是安塞尔姆序言的核心问题,该序言明确采用了奥古斯丁《忏悔录》的对话形式。Anselm没有定义上帝,而是通过明示或索引描述来固定对上帝的提及。同样的语言表述,“上帝是最伟大的东西”,有三个功能:作为一种炫耀,它指出上帝是那个存在,而不是另一个;作为选择的标准,它表面上选择了一个存在而不是不存在的参照物;最后,作为分析的规则,它提供了一个原则来澄清上帝的必要性质,已经被如此炫耀。
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