HoP 205 - Somebody's Perfect - Anselm's Ontol...

How the French formal garden embodied both Cartesian philosophy and the political ideology of the French monarchy. 

How philosophy at the universities evolved in response to Cartesianism and the “new science.” 

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ontological Argument. In the eleventh century St Anselm of Canterbury proposed that it was possible to prove the existence of God using reason alone. His argument was ridiculed by some of his contemporaries, but was analysed and improved by ...  Show more

On this episode of the podcast, we discuss the concept of God from a philosophical perspective. We first broaden our definition of God by recalling the multitude of ways that the philosophers we’ve already studied have approached the subject. Next, we examine St. Anselm’s famous ...  Show more

A prominent atheist philosopher says original sin is the faith's strongest argument 

There is a God, and you are not Him. The starting point for all correct theology or philosophy is found in Genesis 1, which declares God’s existence and transcendence over that which He has made. “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Questions That We’ll Answ ...  Show more