St. Anselm Basic Writings: Proslogium, Mologium, Gaunilo's In Behalf of the Fool, Cur Deus Homo

Type

Book

Authors

Saint Anselm of Canterbury

ISBN 10

0875481094

ISBN 13

9780875481098

Tags

Medieval, Religion & Spirituality, Religious

Description

Anselm of Canterbury was one of the originators of scholastic philosophy. This collection of his best-known philosophical works contains, among other things, the Proslogium, in which Anselm first put forward the famous ontological argument for the existence of God. Also included are Gaunilo of Maurmoutier's criticism of Anselm's argument and Anselm's reply to Gaunilo.

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