[PHILOS 1E03] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (59 pages long!)

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 1E03
• Professor: Richard Arthur

Document Summary

Read what andrew bailey has written on the nature of arguments in your textbook, pg. Aristotle (384-322 bce) contributed the theory of the syllogism: e. g. all a are b; no c are a. There is a form of argument much beloved by the stoics, of which the following argument invented by zeno of citium is an instance: What is rational is better than what is not rational. This works for almost any positive property, like . What is alive is better than what is not alive. This line of reasoning inspired st. anselm to famously argue for existence of god: Nothing is greater than a being-than-which-a-greater-cannot-be-thought (= god). Can god"s existence be proven: the existence of god. Last time we looked at zeno"s arguments about the perfections of the cosmos, and adapted them to god: What exists is better than what does not exist.