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Saint Anselm He is best known for the celebrated "ontological argument" for the existence of God in chapter two of the Proslogion, but his contributions to philosophical theology (and indeed to philosophy more generally) go well beyond the ontological argument. Recall that Anselm's intention in the Proslogion was to offer a single argument that would establish not only the existence of God but also the various attributes that Christians believe God possesses. He opens chapter 13 of the Proslogion by observing, "Everything that is at all enclosed in a place or time is less than that which is subject to no law of place or time" (P 13). www.seop.leeds.ac.uk /archives/fall2004/entries/anselm   (5465 words)

God and God’s Attributes:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) As an exegetical position, the suggestion that Anselm did not intend the Proslogion to be a probative demonstration of God’s existence lacks merit. As I indicated in the discussion of the Proslogion, I believe that Thomas’s reasons for rejecting Anselm’s argument, and any other argument to the effect that God is “per se notum”, are essentially two. The whole body of the Proslogion exhibits the tenor of an intellectual ascesis: see esp. c. www2.bc.edu /~wilkinje/papers/Anselm.htm   (6239 words)

The ontological argument (Third Part) I. Anselm: Proslogion (Chapter II-IV) 3; Gaunilo and Anselm: Criticism and reply 9; III: Arthur C. McGill: Recent discussions of Anselm's argument 33; IV. Anscombe Gertrude Elizabeth, "Why Anselm's proof in the Proslogion is not an ontological argument," The Thoreau quarterly.A journal of literary and philosophical studies 17: 32-40 (1985). This Note argues that although 'exists' has the superficial grammatical appearance of a predicate in the Proslogion, Anselm does not in fact rely on the premise that 'exists' is a logical predicate (or that existing is a property) in his putative proof. www.formalontology.it /ontological_biblio.htm   (6255 words)

WEST   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)  Saint Anselm outlines a system of signification in De grammatico which is useful in analyzing the Proslogion and formulating answers to Thomas Aquinas's critique of the argument.  This paper summarizes Anselm's theory of signification, analyzes the proof in Proslogion in terms of it, and develops a possible reply to one of Aquinas's critiques based on Anselm's theory of signification. How the mind relates to signs and their parts is at the core of the argument in the Proslogion. www.brown.edu /Departments/Medieval_Studies/Conference/2001/west.html   (245 words)

Saint Anselm Journal - Anselm's Proslogion: The Desire for the Word - Abstract   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Some readers see the Proslogion as the successful search for necessary and indubitable arguments, while others read the work as expressing pious incapacity to understand God. The paper argues that Anselm's project in the Proslogion, is one that Anselm himself views as both necessary and paradoxical. The paper examines the way in which "faith seeking understanding," the ontological argument, and the derivation of the divine attributes from the original formula in the Proslogion repeat this pattern of yielding conclusions which are both necessary and paradoxical. www.anselm.edu /library/SAJ/11Sweeney.html   (136 words)

Welcome To Axis Mundi: A Student Journal For The Academic Study Of Religion In speaking of Anselm's Proslogion in his two essays: "What did Anselm Discover?" and "The Irreducibly Modal Structure of the Argument", one would scarcely recognize Charles Hartshorne to be speaking of something Anselm had actually written. In writing down the results of his "discovery", Anselm identifies the role of the Proslogion to be a work for those "trying to raise their mind to the contemplation of God and seeking to understand what they believe." It is from this standpoint that Anselm claims the Proslogion is written. Anselm claims to have written down this newfound understanding in the Proslogion, but he advises his reader that it is written from the standpoint of a specific sort of thinking, viz. www.arts.ualberta.ca /axismundi/2001/on_st.php   (12224 words)

St. Anselms Proslogion Supersite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) h(Anselms speculations did not receive sources for the history of St Anselm W d his times are Eadmers 1885); the Monologion and Proslogion, by C. Ubaghs co ouvain, 1854. He st :d lighted on some fragments treatises, the Monologion and Proslogion. ANSA - LoveToKnow Article on ANSA - iich are those dedicated to St John, containing the vault of treatises, the Monologion and Proslogion. auctions.dunningadvertising.com /listings/st.-anselms-proslogion.htm   (375 words)

Anselm - Proslogion, Chapter 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Philosophy of Religion / Arguments for the Existence of God / The Ontological Argument / Anselm - Proslogion, Chapter 2 The definitive statement of the ontological argument appears in Anselm’s Proslogion, chapter 2. Without doubt, therefore, there exists, both in the understanding and in reality, something than which a greater cannot be thought. www.philosophyofreligion.info /anselmproslogion2.html   (380 words)

Quodlibet Online Journal: Anselm's Proslogion: One, Simple Proof?: by Dennis W. Jowers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Careful analysis of Anselm's Proslogion and his Reply to Gaunilo, however, will show that Anselm proposes not one, but six ontological arguments which, while relying on common premises about the nature of thought and the identity of God, differ in their contents, sometimes markedly. As analysis of these arguments will show, Anselm proposes in the Proslogion and the Reply not merely a simple argument, but a whole method of reasoning about God fertile in its implications for His nature and existence. Charlesworth, M.J., St. Anselm's Proslogion with 'A Reply on Behalf of the Fool' by Gaunilo and 'The Author's Reply to Gaunilo' (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), p. www.quodlibet.net /jowers-anselm.shtml   (1323 words)

TAPE 3: ANSELM'S MONOLOGION But whereas Lanfranc was critical of attempts to reason about religious topics without constant reference to the bible, Anselm wrote a number of books on religious topics in which he relies on reason alone - arguing, that is, like a philosopher. "Proslogion" may derive from the Greek word proslegein, which means "to speak to" or "address"; "proslogion" is an address to God. These passages suggest that Anselm's purpose is to show by strictly philosophical reasons the truth of things he holds by faith: he already believes these things, but wants to show that they are true. www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/x52t03.html   (5439 words)

Purdue University Press - Innovation is our Pressing Mission It treats Anselm’s famous proof for the existence of God as both a rational argument and an exercise in mystical theology, analyzing the logic of its reasoning while providing a phenomenological account of the vision of God that is embedded within it. Through a deconstructive reading of the cycle of prayer and proof that forms the overall structure of the text, not only is the argument returned to its place in the Proslogion as a whole, but the historic relationship that it attempts to establish between faith and reason is examined. Unlike the Five Ways of Thomas Aquinas or Anselm's famous Proslogion argument, Scotus's proof is of another order of complexity and amounts to a little "summa" of-his metaphysics. www.thepress.purdue.edu /series/philosophy.asp   (1513 words)

TAPE 4: ANSELM, PROSLOGION, CUR DEUS HOMO This is the "one single argument" Anselm refers to in the Proslogion preface - the one argument that would suffice to prove whatever we believe about the divine being. Notice that Anselm refers to the objections of unbelievers: whereas Monologion and Proslogion were written for his monks, and the doubts and objections were imagined, this book is a contribution to an actual exchange of argument with non-Christians, probably with Jews. Besides the works we have looked at, the Monologion, Proslogion and Cur deus homo, Anselm wrote a dialogue on Truth, a dialogue on Free will, a dialogue on The Fall of the Devil, a letter On the incarnation, and a dialogue The harmony between God's Foreknowledge, Predestination, Grace and Free Choice. www.humanities.mq.edu.au /Ockham/x52t04.html   (5417 words)

The Modal Unity of Anselm's Proslogion Most contemporary philosophers, however, have narrowly focused on Proslogion II, and have consequently ignored Anselm's emphasis on a single argument in his work.ii In this paper I attempt to provide a logical map of Anselm's argument as a whole. Instead, I shall attempt to exhibit the logical relations among the stages of Anselm's broader "single argument" as it is progressively developed in Proslogion I, II, III and the remaining chapters of the Proslogion, and as it is elaborated upon in Anselm's Reply to Gaunilo. 509-529] in their exposition of Proslogion II claim that the argument turns on the logic of definite descriptions and does not contain any essential modal inferences. www.sunysb.edu /philosophy/faculty/gmar/anselm.htm   (533 words)

1033 - 1109 ANSELM ON GOD'S EXISTENCE PROSLOGION Translation by David Burr In the Monologion he described deity as the one most truly good thing, from which all real moral values derive and whose existence is required by the reality of those values. Most famously, in the Proslogion (Addition), Anselm proposed the famous Ontological Argument, according to which god is understood as "aliquid quod maius non cogitari potest" ("that than which nothing greater can be conceived"). The being so conceived must necessarily exist in reality as well as in thought, he argued, since otherwise it would in fact be possible to conceive something greater—namely, something exactly simliar except that it really does exist. evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com /anselm01.htm   (4790 words)

Ontological Arguments Instead, I shall just focus on the question of the analysis of the material in Proslogion II on the assumption that there is an independent argument for the existence of God which is given therein. Thus even the fool is convinced that something than which nothing greater can be conceived is in the understanding, since when he hears this, he understands it; and whatever is understood is in the understanding. Considered as interpretations of the argument presented in the Proslogion, these formulations are subject to various kinds of criticisms. plato.stanford.edu /entries/ontological-arguments   (8614 words)

Assess the Argument Put forward by St. Anselm in the Pros In seeking to prove the existence of God, he wrote the Proslogion. The context of Proslogion is in the form of a prayer; Anselm is in a state of meditation and contemplation, seeking to consolidate his belief with a logical proof of God’s existence. The argument put forward in the Proslogion is the ontological argument. www.radessays.com /link.php?site=re&aff=r2c2&dest=viewpaper.php?request=4631   (311 words)

Introducing the philosophy of religion No. 3 In the the second chapter of the Proslogion (Discourse, 1077), St Anselm, a well-regarded philosopher and theologian, presented the original statement of what in the 18 Judging from the Proslogion, the primary meaning of this word is synonymous with that which is logically possible. Provided we accept the possibility of `the greatest being', and that which exists in reality is greater than that which exists in the mind, then God, as the greatest being, cannot exist only in the mind. www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/rel_three.htm   (2018 words)

St. Anselm's Proslogion With a Reply on Behalf of the Fool by Saint, Abp. of Canterbury Anselm 0268016968 - Direct ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) Anselm's Proslogion With a Reply on Behalf of the Fool by Saint, Abp. Anselm's Proslogion With a Reply on Behalf of the Fool Proslogion, with the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm 2001 www.directtextbook.com /reviews/0268016968   (225 words)

Monologion and Proslogion With the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm:0872202976:Anselm; Williams, Thomas:eCampus.com Monologion and Proslogion With the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm:0872202976:Anselm; Williams, Thomas:eCampus.com Three Philosophical Dialogues: On Truth, on Freedom of Choice, on the Fall of the Devil Proslogion With the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm: With the Replies of Gaunilo and Anselm www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0872202976   (85 words)

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Medieval Sourcebook: Anselm: On the Existence of God Anselm's writings place him securely in the second group. As he suggests at the beginning of the Proslogion, sin has so darkened our minds that we cannot hope to reach the truth unless God graciously leads us to it. He does so by offering us the truth through revelation and by inspiring us to accept that revelation in faith. www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/anselm.html   (4855 words)

The Ontological Argument Gideon Rosen’s commentary on the second chapter of Anselm’s Proslogion. For if it is actually in the understanding alone, it can be thought of as existing also in reality, and this is greater... Without doubt, therefore, there exists, both in the understanding and in reality, something than which a greater cannot be thought.” [St Anselm, Proslogion, Chapter II] www.philosophyofreligion.info /ontological.html   (711 words)

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[No title] The 'Ontological Argument' is the name given since Kant to what are actually a number of related arguments originally invented by Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) and re-discovered by Descartes in the 17th Century. In Anselm's Proslogion, it occurs in the midst of a prayer addressed to the very God whose existence he is supposedly proving. Anselm is engaged in a process of Fides Quaerens Intellectum, faith seeking understanding, striving to understand that which he believes and loves, including the existence and nature of God. members.optusnet.com.au /~gjmoses/way4.htm   (1341 words)

The ontological argument from Anselm to Gödel Fifteen authors refer to the Proof, of whom the following ten accept it: William of Auxerre, Richard Fischacre, Alexander of Hales, Bonaventura, Matthew of Aquasparta, Johannes Peck ham, Nicolaus of Cusa, [this is a lapsus: Daniels (1909) speaks of Nicolaus Occam] Aegidius of Rome, William of Ware, and Duns Scotus. Of these at least four, Alexander, Bonaventura, Nicolaus, and Scotus seem to have some appreciation of Proslogion III and of the true Anselmian Principle; the rest seem to be thinking largely or exclusively of Proslogion II. Thus even where the Proof was taken at its weakest, still six found it convincing and but two rejected it; and where it was taken at its strongest, four out of five accepted and none rejected i t. www.formalontology.it /ontological_proof.htm   (3702 words)

Amazon.ca: Books: Prayers and Meditations of St. Anselm with the Proslogion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) This book allows one to feel the essence of worship that is necessary in understanding Anselm's thought. I've read some other translations (especially those of the Proslogion), and only this edition can claim to be the prayer that Anselm meant them to be. The brief introduction featured in the book is also worth reading, although it doesn't give all the details, it does allow one to understand why Anselm has been misunderstood by so many, and it gives one a chance to understand him better. www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140442782   (363 words)

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Anselm The argument was set out by Anselm (1033 - 1109), Archbishop of Canterbury, in the opening chapters of his Proslogion. He makes it clear that he is not putting forward this argument in order to be able to believe in God, but that his belief leads him to understand God's existence in this particular way - a way which leads him to the conclusion that God must exist. Now we believe that thou are a being than which none greater can be thought. www.faragher.freeserve.co.uk /anselm2.htm   (610 words)

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UC Davis Philosophy 1 (Mattey) Lecture Notes on Anselm's Proslogion Anselm (1033-1109), a native of Italy who became Archbishop of Canterbury, England, was a sophisticated philosophical theologian. Anselm begins to develop the properties of God from the concept of the greatest thinkable being. And these creatures are not yet in their futures, while God is in all of eternity as a unitary being, as argued above. hume.ucdavis.edu /mattey/phi001/anselmlec.html   (3152 words)

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