Works of St. Anselm
9781465577351
165 pages
Library of Alexandria
Overview
THE present volume of St. Anselm's most important philosophical and theological writings contains: (1) TheProslogium (2) theMonologium, (3) theCur Deus Homo, and (4) by way of historical complement, an Appendix to theMonologium entitled In Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilon, a monk of Marmoutiers. TheProslogium (which, though subsequent in point of time to theMonologium, is here placed first, as containing the famous ontological argument), theMonologium and the Appendix thereto were translated by Mr. Sidney Norton Deane, of New Haven, Conn.; the Cur Deus Homo was rendered by James Gardiner Vose, formerly of Milton, Conn., and later of Providence, R. I., and published in 1854 and 1855 in the Bibliotheca Sacra, then issued at Andover, Mass., by Warren F. Draper. The thanks of the reading public are due to all these gentlemen for their gratuitous labors in behalf of philosophy. Welch's recent book Anselm and His Work, by its accessibility, renders any extended biographical notice of Anselm unneccessary. We append, therefore, merely a few brief paragraphs from Weber's admirable History of Philosophy on Anselm's position in the world of thought, and we afterwards add (this, at the suggestion of Prof. George M. Duncan, of Yale University) a series of quotations regarding Anselm's most characteristic contribution to philosophy—-the ontological argument—-from Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibnitz, Kant, Hegel, Dorner, Lotze, and Professor Flint. A bibliography also has been compiled. Thus the work will give full material and indications for the original study of one of the greatest exponents of Christian doctrine.
