Charles Hartshorne
Charles Hartshorne was an American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics, but also contributed to ornithology. He developed the neoclassical idea of God and produced a modal proof of the existence of God that was a development of Anselm of Canterbury's ontological argument, which influenced Gödel's ontological proof.
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Trending topics shown first"Special Hartshorne Edition , Process Perspectives , v. 20, n. 3, spring 1997. Includes reminiscences by Hartshorne."
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"These distinctions make sense only when AR is assumed . Just as AR is the whole positive content of perfection, so CW, or the conception of the Creator-and-the-Whole-of-what-he-has-created as constitu…"
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