I’m working on a philosophy question and need support to help me learn.
please answer the following question in short paragraph.
You are the student __________. You just had the strangest dream, if indeed it was a dream. (It was so vivid! Maybe it was a vision, or a visitation?) Here is the scene. You had just finished a paper for your philosophy class. No sooner had you finished the paper than—bang! shazam!—in your dream, or visit, or visitation, Anselm of Canterbury and Thomas Aquinas appeared before you. And they wanted to talk, in some depth and at some length, about arguments for the existence or reality of God! More precisely, they wanted to talk about their own arguments. They explained their arguments, and then engaged you in discussion.
You are awake now, or at least you sure think you are. The dream, or vision, or visitation is over. But you don’t want to forget it! So, record in your diary a transcript, as best you can recall, of your discussion. What did Anselm and Aquinas say? What did you say? Of course, they explained their arguments, but they also raised critical questions about one another’s arguments, and the three of you reflected together on just what arguments for the existence or reality of God, like Anselm’s and Aquinas’s arguments, are trying to accomplish. (Are they trying to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that God exists, or are they trying to establish that belief in God is reasonable or well-grounded, or…?)
Although you are sleepy, and truth be told a little stunned by your experience, try hard to recall and capture all the twists and turns of the discussion.
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