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Williams's translations are scrupulously faithful and accurate without being slavishly literal, and yet are lively and graceful.--Paul Vincent Spade, Indiana University
Series: Hackett Classics
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. (February 1, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0872202976
ISBN-13: 978-0872202979
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Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was a medieval philosopher, theologian, prior of Bec, and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. This volume includes the Monologion, the Proslogion, Gaunilo's reply to the ontological argument, and Anselm's reply to Gaunilo's reply. Anselm is known by the motto "faith seeking understanding." However, it should be noted that Anselm is not "hoping to replace faith with understanding" (xiii) but rather the better that you come to know God "the more you will see that he is worthy of all your love" (xiv). The Monologion proceeds on these themes, exploring God's Divine attributes and provides a few arguments for the existence of God. The reader will be immediately struck by Anselm's obsession with semantics - Anselm argues that "systematic reflection on the language of Christian doctrine is... always in the service of a better understanding of God" (xv). Anselm also discusses the question of Biblical metaphor, Trinitarian theology, and the rational soul.The Proslogion contains the famous ontological argument. Anselm's ontological argument is as follows. Premise I: God is by definition that than which no greater can exist meaning that God is the most perfect object, the most perfect being that can be thought about. Secondly, it is understood that it is greater to exist in reality and the mind than to exist only in the mind. If you tell the fool who does not believe in God to think about the concept of that than which no greater can exist, that concept exists in his mind. Even the fool cannot doubt that the concept exists in his mind since he had heard it and understood it and "whatever is understood is in the mind" (pg 150).
Monologion and Proslogion: with the replies of Gaunilo and Anselm (Hackett Classics) Meditations, Objections, and Replies (Hackett Classics) Anselm: Basic Writings (Hackett Classics) A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados (Hackett Classics) The Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Abridged (Hackett Classics) On Law, Morality and Politics, 2nd Edition (Hackett Classics) On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War (Hackett Classics) The First New Chronicle and Good Government, Abridged (Hackett Classics) Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline (Hackett Classics) Four Plays and Three Jokes (Hackett Classics) An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: with Hume's Abstract of A Treatise of Human Nature and A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh (Hackett Classics) Erasmus and Luther: The Battle over Free Will (Hackett Classics) The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, death scene from Phaedo (Hackett Classics) Ideas for a Pure Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy: First Book: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology (Hackett Classics) Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Hackett Classics) A Pioneer in Yokohama: A Dutchman's Adventures in the New Treaty Port (Hackett Classics) The Song of Roland (Hackett Classics) Inferno (Hackett Classics) The Essential Petrarch (Hackett Classics) Theban Plays (Hackett Classics)
