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    (ST.) ANSELM of Canterbury (1033-1109)

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    Anselm was born in 1033 in Aosta, Italy and became a Benedictine monk in Normandy. He wrote extensively on theology and philosophy, making significant contributions in the areas of metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of language. His best known work is the "Ontological Argument" for God's existence. Anselm systematically reflected on Christian doctrines and developed an original view of free will. He viewed language as a system of signs influenced by Augustine.

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    Anselm was born in 1033 in Aosta, Italy and became a Benedictine monk in Normandy. He wrote extensively on theology and philosophy, making significant contributions in the areas of metaphysics, ethics, and philosophy of language. His best known work is the "Ontological Argument" for God's existence. Anselm systematically reflected on Christian doctrines and developed an original view of free will. He viewed language as a system of signs influenced by Augustine.

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    (St.

    ) ANSELM of Canterbury [1033–1109]


    Anselm was born in Aosta, in the Piedmont region of the
    kingdom of Burgundy, near the border with Lombardy. His
    family was noble but of declining fortunes. Anselm
    remained at home until he was twenty-three; after the
    death of his mother he quarrelled irrevocably with his
    father and left home, wandering for some years before
    arriving at the Benedictine Abbey at Bec in Normandy.
    Was the author of some dozen works whose
    originality and subtlety earned him the title of
    “Father of Scholasticism.” Best known in the
    modern era for his “Ontological Argument,”
    designed to prove God’s existence, Anselm made
    significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics,
    and philosophy of language.
    While at Bec Anselm wrote his Monologion,
    Proslogion, and the four philosophical dialogues
    De grammatico, De veritate, De libertate arbitrii,
    and De casu Diaboli. While op Anselm wrote his De
    incarnatione Verbi, Carchbishur Deus homo, De
    conceptu virginali, De processione Spiritus Sancti,
    and De concordia.
    Method
    Most of Anselm’s work systematically reflects on
    the content of Christian doctrine: Trinity,
    Incarnation, the procession of the Holy Spirit,
    original sin, the fall of Lucifer, redemption and
    atonement, virgin conception, grace and
    foreknowledge, the divine attributes, and the
    nature of sin. He called this reflective activity
    ‘meditation’.
    Metaphysics

    Following Augustine, Anselm is, broadly


    speaking, a Platonist in metaphysics. A
    thing has a feature in virtue of its relation
    to something paradigmatically exhibiting
    that feature.
    Ethics

    Anselm’s positive ethical theory is grounded on his


    theory of the will and free choice, one of his most
    striking and original contributions. The traditional
    account of free will holds that an agent is free when
    there are genuine alternatives open to her, so that
    she can do one or another of them as she pleases.
    Philosophy of Language

    Anselm adopts Augustine’s view of language as a


    system of signs. This general category covers linguistic
    items, such as utterances, inscriptions, gestures, and at
    least some acts of thought; it also covers nonlinguistic
    items, such as icons, statues, smoke (a sign of fire), and
    even human actions, which Anselm says are signs that
    the agent thinks the action should be done.

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