Author: CHARLESWORTH, M. J. (TRANSLATOR)
Title: St. Anselm's Proslogion with a Reply on Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilo and the Author's Reply to Gaunilo
Description: Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1965. First Edition; First Edition. Original Cloth. 196 pages. With library stamps and labels. With light wea o spine covers and corners. ; Ex-Library; In the Proslogion, St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselms proof, known since the time of Kant as the ontological argument for the existence of God, has played an important role in the history of philosophy and has been incorporated in various forms into the systems of Descartes, Leibniz, Hegel, and others. Included in this edition of the Proslogion are Gaunilos A Reply on Behalf of the Fool and St. Anselms The Authors Reply to Gaunilo. All three works are in the original Latin with English translation on facing pages. Professor Charlesworths introduction provides a helpful discussion of the context of the Proslogion in the theological tradition and in Anselms own thought and writing.. Good .

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