The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century PhilosophyPart memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self–portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic. The Making of a Philosopher follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading Descartes and Anselm, to his years in the states, first in Los Angeles, then New York. McGinn presents a contemporary academic take on the great philosophical figures of the twentieth century, including Bertrand Russell, Jean–Paul Sartre, and Noam Chomsky, alongside stories of the teachers who informed his ideas and often became friends and mentors, especially the colorful A.J. Ayer at Oxford. McGinn's prose is always elegant and probing; students of contemporary philosophy and the general reader alike will absorb every page.
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... arguments for the existence of God ( I forget now what book it was ) . I came across something called the " ontological argument , ” invented by Saint Anselm of Can- terbury in the Middle Ages . I found the argument hard to follow but ...
... argument that the exis- tence of God cannot be sensibly denied . No need to appeal to leaps of faith or speculations ... ontological argument is sound , though I don't think there is anything obviously wrong with it . But it is a ...
... argument , simple ... ontological argu- ment ; he must have walked around Canterbury in a daze of excitement and awe for weeks . ( There was , unfortu- nately , no Saint Anselm of Blackpool , whose shrine I might visit . ) In fact the ...
... argument combines with the ontological argument : It turns out that reason can prove logically that God exists , but it also leads to the result that we cannot know that the ordinary world of tables and chairs exists . We thought that ...
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