Anselm's Argument

Anselm of Canterbury gave the first "modal" ontological argument for God''s existence. Here, Brian Leftow defends all premises of this argument save the claim that possibly God exists. He in particular defends the premise that God would exist with absolute or metaphysical necessity against all extant and some new objections, and provides new arguments for it. Leftow contends that Anselm''s argumen...