St. Anselm’s Proslogion : With A Reply on Behalf of the Fool by Gaunilo and The Author’s Reply to Gaunilo

In the Proslogion St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's 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 St. Anselm's Proslogion are Gaunilo's A Reply on Behalf of the Fool and St. Anselm's The Author's Reply to Gaunilo . All three works are given in the original Latin with English translation on facing pages. Professor Charlesworth provides in his introduction a helpful discussion of the context of the Proslogion in the theological tradition and in Anselm's own thought and writing. His commentary exhibits a careful analysis of Anselm's progression of thought and illuminates his argument by comparing it with the later ontological argument of Descartes. Professor Charlesworth deals critically with various interpretations of the Proslogion by later theologians, notably Aquinas and Karl Barth. In the Proslogion , St. Anselm presents a philosophical argument for the existence of God. Anselm's 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 Gaunilo's "A Reply on Behalf of the Fool" and St. Anselm's "The Author's Reply to Gaunilo." All three works are in the original Latin with English translation on facing pages. Professor Charlesworth's introduction provides a helpful discussion of the context of the Proslogion in the theological tradition and in Anselm's own thought and writing. Contents Introduction The Proslogion Argument St. Anselm: Life And Times St. Anselm's System 1. The Character Of St. Anselm's Thought 2. St. Anselm And St. Augustine 3. Faith And Reason in the Cur Deus Homo 4. Karl Barth's St. Anselm Philosophical Commentary Proslogion A Reply On Behalf Of The Fool By Gaunilo The Author's Reply To Gaunilo Texts And Translations Proslogion A Reply On Behalf Of The Fool By Gaunilo The Author's Reply To Gaunilo Index