Did Anselm, in his "Ontological Argument" (first advanced around
1070), make one of the greatest intellectual discoveries of all
time, or did he merely fall into an interesting blunder? In his
day, Anselm was criticized by Gaunilo. Subsequent philosophers have
generally considered Gaunilo's criticisms to be weighty. Descartes'
attempt to resuscitate Anselm's argument led to Kant's supposed
refutation, which most later philosophers have considered to be
fundamentally sound. Charles Hartshorne has brought back the
"Ontological Argument" as a major problem of modern philosophical
analysis, and "Anselm's Discovery" has been described as his most
systematic exposition of the history of the subject. According to
Hartshorne, generations of philosophers have read Anselm
superficially, and have failed to see that Anselm presented two
forms of the Argument, the second involving a genuine conceptual
breakthrough.
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