Compare And Contrast Anslem Vs. Anselm

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Anselm of Canterbury is also known as Saint Anselm was born in 1033 and died at about the age of 76 in 1109. Reasoned God's’ existence with ontological argument. Another Philosopher was born later named Thomas Aquinas or Saint Aquinas, born in 1225-1274 (Palmer 2013). He argued over the existence of God, but he had five philosophical arguments called the cosmological arguments. Anslem and Aquinas have two different philosophies, but some comparisons and contrasts exist between the two arguments. While Anselm’s argument comes from a theory of being, Thomas was concerned with observing the natural world.
If beings can conceive an incredible, necessary being then a greater being exists, according to Saint Anselm. If humans do not have an idea