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Name:
Anselm of Canterbury
Dates:
Born: c. 1033 in Lombardy
Died: 1109
Archbishop of Canterbury: 1093
Ontological Argument Published: 1077-78
Biography:
Saint Anselm (c. 1033-1109) was a medival scholastic philosopher who was among the first
to make extensive use of Aristotelian logic. Because of this, some regard Anselm as
the father of scholasticism, setting of a church-wide trend of adapting Aritotle's
terminology and concepts to the purpose of explaining and defending Christian
concepts.
Anselm is responsible for formulating one of the most famous formulations of the Ontological Argument (in his book Proslogian) for the existence of god. Using linguistic analysis in an effort to solve some conceptual problem was characteristic for Anselm's writing and was not employed solely in the ontological argument.
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