Philosopher · High and Late Middle Ages · Italy
Anselm of Canterbury
1033–1109
Italian born monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093 and gave scholastic theology its motto, faith seeking understanding. His Proslogion argues for God's existence from the bare idea of God. He lived 1033 to 1109.
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- Born
- 1033, Aosta, in what is now Italy.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Anselm
- Died
- 1109, Canterbury, England.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Anselm
- School
- Scholasticism, at its beginning.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Anselm
- Known for
- The ontological argument: God, defined as that than which nothing greater can be thought, must exist even in reality. Also Cur Deus Homo, on why God became man.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Anselm
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