Plato and Anselm Philosophies

Plato and Anselm Philosophies

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Answer preview……………

Philosophy is one of the broadest subjects around the world, as well as complex. In a way, philosophy finds ways to explain the outcome and drives of various aspects of life. Defining philosophy is hard as compared to other phenomena even then different definitions have been created throughout the years.  Philo- means love, while Sophos means wisdom. With this knowledge, we can then go ahead and define philosophy as the rational search for explanations of different aspects of life and how it is. Many philosophers have come up with factors that provide information and knowledge of different aspects. One of the major philosophers were Plato and Anselm. Despite the two being great philosophers, they shared very little of their ideologies and thoughts………..

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