The many-faced argument ; recent studies on the ontological argument for the existence of God, edited by John Hick and Arthur C. McGill.

Contributor Hick, John, 1922-2012.

Imprint:New York : Macmillan, [1967]

Descriptionvii, 373 p. ; 22 cm.

Note:PART I. THE ARGUMENT IN ANSELM: 1. Proslogion (Chapters 2-4) / Anselm -- 2. Criticism and reply / Gauilo and Anselm -- 3. Recent discussions of Anselm's argument / Arthur C. McGill -- 4. A Platonic justification for the argument a priori / A. Beckaert -- 5. A presupposition of the proof: the name of God / Karl Barth -- 6. Proslogion III: the special existence of God / Karl Barth -- 7. The role of the fool in St. Anselm and the necessarily apostolic character of true Christian reflection / André Hayden -- 8. Anselm's theology in the Proslogion / Anselm Stolz -- Part II. THE ARGUMENT IN RECENT PHILOSOPHY: 9. Introduction : A. Is existence a predicate? / John Hick: -- 10. General propositions and existence / Bertrand Russell -- 11. Existence, predication and the ontological argument / Jerome Shaffer -- B. The Hegelian use of the argument: 12. Mr. Collingwood and the ontological argument / Gilbert Ryle -- 13. Mr. Ryle and the ontological argument / E.E. Harris -- 14. Back to the ontological argument / Gilbert Ryle -- 15. St. Anselm's argument in reflexive philosophy / Aimé Forest -- C. The Second form of the argument: 16. Anselm's ontological arguments / Norman Malcolm -- 17. What did Anselm discover? / Charles Hartshorne -- 18. The irreducibly modal structure of the argument / Charles Hartshorne -- 19. A critique of the "second argument" / John Hick.

Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 357-370. Bibliographical footnotes.

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