Monologium. Chapter Lxvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXVI. Through the rational mind is the nearest approach to the supreme Being. SINCE it is clear, then, that nothing can be ascertained concerning this Nature in terms of its own peculiar character, but only in terms of something...
Monologium. Chapter Lxx : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXX. This Being gives itself in return to the creature that loves it, that that creature may be eternally blessed. THEREFORE it cannot be made to appear true that he who is most just and most powerful makes no return to the being...
Cur Deus Homo. Book Second : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], BOOK SECOND. CHAPTER I. How man was made holy by God, so as to be happy in the enjoyment of God. "Anselm." It ought not to be disputed that rational nature was made holy by God, in order to be happy in enjoying Him. For to this end is it...
Monologium. Chapter Xxix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXIX. His expression is identical with himself, and consubstantial with him, since there are not two spirits, but one. BUT now, having considered these questions regarding the properties of the supreme Nature, which have occurred...
Appendix. Anselm's Apologetic : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], ANSELM'S APOLOGETIC. IN REPLY TO GAUNILON'S ANSWER IN BEHALF OF THE FOOL. IT was a fool against whom the argument of my Proslogium was directed. Seeing, however, that the author of these objections is by no means a fool, and is...
Monologium. Chapter Ix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER IX. Those things which were created from nothing had an existence before their creation in the thought of the Creator. BUT I seem to see a truth that compels me to distinguish carefully in what sense those things which were...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXXVI. In how incomprehensible a way he expresses or knows the objects created by him. HENCE, it may be most clearly comprehended that how this Spirit expresses, or how he knows the created world, cannot be comprehended by hum...
Proslogium. Chapter Xviii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XVIII. God is life, wisdom, eternity, and every true good. Whatever is composed of parts is not wholly one; it is capable, either in fact or in concept, of dissolution. In God wisdom, eternity, etc., are not parts, but one...
Monologium. Chapter Xxv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 83 CHAPTER XXV. It cannot suffer change by any accidents [Accidents, as Anselm uses the term, are facts external to the essence of a being, which may yet be conceived to produce changes in a mutable being.] BUT does not this Being...
Proslogium. Chapter Xx : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 25 CHAPTER XX. He exists before all things and transcends all things, even the eternal things. Tbe eternity of God is present as a whole with him; while other things have not yet that part of their eternity which is still to be...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxviii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXXVIII. It cannot be explained why they are two, although they must be so. OUR careful attention is therefore demanded by a peculiarity which, though most unusual in other beings, seems to belong to the supreme Spirit and his...
Monologium. Chapter Xliv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XLIV. How one is the essence of the other. HENCE, even if one is called the essence of the other, there is no departure from truth; but the supreme p. 106 simplicity and unity of their common nature is thus honored. For, not...
Monologium. Chapter Lx : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LX. To none of these is another necessary that he may remember, conceive, or love: since each taken by himself is memory and intelligence and love and all that is necessarily inherent in the supreme Being. BUT, while this...
Proslogium. Chapter Viii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER VIII. How he is compassionate and passionless. God is compassionate, in terms of our experience, because we experience the effect of compassion. God is not compassionate, in terms of his own being, because he does not experience...
Proslogium. Chapter Vii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 11 CHAPTER VII. How he is omnipotent, although there are many things of which he is not capable. To be capable of being corrupted, or of lying, is not power, but impotence. God can do nothing by virtue of impotence, and nothing h...
Proslogium. Chapter Xiv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 19 CHAPTER XIV. How and why God is seen and yet not seen by those who seek him. HAST thou found what thou didst seek, my soul? Thou didst seek God. Thou hast found him to be a being which is the highest of all beings, a being th...
Title Page : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], ST. ANSELM PROSLOGIUM; MONOLOGIUM; AN APPENDIX IN BEHALF OF THE FOOL BY GAUNILON; AND CUR DEUS HOMO TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN BY SIDNEY NORTON DEANE, B. A. WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BIBLIOGRAPHY, AND REPRINTS OF THE OPINIONS OF LEADING...
Proslogium. Chapter Xxii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXII. He alone is what he is and who be is. All things need God for their being and their wellbeing. THEREFORE, thou alone, O Lord, art what thou art; and thou art he who thou art. For, what is one thing in the whole and another...
Monologium. Chapter Xlii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XLII. It is the property of the one to be most truly progenitor and Father, and of the other to be the begotten and Son. I should certainly be glad, and perhaps able, now to reach the conclusion, that he is most truly the Fatherp...
Untitled : St. Anselm of Canterbury (b. 1033 d. 1099) was a medieval Italian cleric, philosopher and theologian. He originated the ontological argument for the existence of God in his treatise Proslogium (or Proslogion). Anselm held the post of the Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. Title Page...
Monologium. Chapter Lvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LVI. Only the Father begets and is unbegotten; only the son is begotten; only love neither begotten nor unbegotten. STILL, it is apparent that this love can neither be said, in accordance with the usage of common speech, to be...
Proslogium. Chapter Xii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XII. God is the very life whereby he lives; and so of other like attributes. BUT undoubtedly, whatever thou art, thou art through nothing else than thyself. Therefore, thou art the very life whereby thou livest; and the wisdom...
Proslogium. Chapter Xxiv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXIV. Conjecture as to the character and the magnitude of this good. If the created life is good, how good is the creative life! AND now, my soul, arouse and lift up all thy understanding, and conceive, so far as thou canst...
Monologium. Chapter Xliii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XLIII. Consideration of the common attributes of both and the individual properties of each. NOW that so many and so important properties of each have been discovered, whereby a strange plurality, as ineffable as it is inevitable...
Cur Deus Homo. Book First : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], BOOK FIRST. CHAPTER I. The question on which the whole work rests. I HAVE been often and most earnestly requested by many, both personally and by letter, that I would hand down in writing the proofs of a certain doctrine of our faith...
Monologium. Chapter Xiii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XIII. As all things were created through the supreme Being, so all live through it. IT is certain, then, that through the supreme Nature whatever is not identical with it has been created. But no rational mind can doubt that all...
Monologium. Chapter Xvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XVI. For this Being it is the same to be just that it is to be justice; and so with regard to attributes that can be expressed in the same way: and none of these shows of what character, or how great, but what this Being is. BUT...
Monologium. Chapter Viii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER VIII. How it is to be understood that this Nature created all things from nothing. BUT we are confronted with a doubt regarding this term "nothing." For, from whatever source anything is created, that source is the cause of wh...
Proslogium. Chapter Iii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER III. God cannot be conceived not to exist. God is that, than which nothing greater can be conceived. That which can be conceived not to exist is not God. AND it assuredly exists so truly, that it cannot be conceived not to exist...
Proslogium. Chapter Xi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 17 CHAPTER XI. How all the ways of God are compassion and truth; and yet God is just in all his ways. We cannot comprehend why, of the wicked, he saves these rather than those, through his supreme goodness: and condemns those rather...
Monologium. Chapter Xxii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXII. How it exists in every place and time, and in none. HOW, then, shall these prepositions, that are so necessary according to our exposition, and so necessary according to our proof, be reconciled? Perhaps the supreme Nature...
Monologium. Chapter Ii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER II. The same subject continued. BUT, just as it has been proved that there is a being that is supremely good, since all goods are good through a single being, which is good through itself; so it is necessarily inferred that there...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXXV. We must believe in this Being, that is, by believing we must reach out for it. BUT what does not believe cannot love or hope. It is, therefore, profitable to this human soul to believe the supreme Being and those things...
Monologium. Chapter Xvii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XVII. It is simple in such a way that all things that can be said of its essence are one and the same in it: and nothing can be said of its substance except in terms of what it is. IS it to be inferred, then, that if the supreme...
Monologium. Chapter Lxv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXV. How real truth may be reached in the discussion of an ineffable subject. BUT again, if such is the character of its ineffability, nay, since it is such, how shall whatever conclusionp. 127 our discussion has reached...
Monologium. Chapter Xlvii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XLVII. The Son is the intelligence of intelligence and the Truth of truth BUT if the very substance of the Father is intelligence, and knowledge, and wisdom, and truth, it is p. 110 consequently inferred that as the Son is...
Monologium. Chapter Xxx : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXX. This expression does not consist of more words than one, but is one Word. WHY, then, should I have any further doubt regarding that question which I dismissed above as doubtful, namely, whether this expression consists...
Monologium. Chapter Lv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 115 CHAPTER LV. This love is not their Son. SINCE this love, then, has its being equally from Father and Son, and is so like both that it is in no wise unlike them, but is altogether identical with them; is it to be regarded as their...
Criticisms Of Anselm's Ontological Argument : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CRITICISMS OF ANSELM'S ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE BEING OF GOD. DESCARTES. 2 "But now, if from the simple fact that I can draw from my thought the idea of anything it follows that all that I recognise clearly and distinctly to pert...
Monologium. Chapter Xxvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXVI. How this Being is said to be substance: it transcends all substance and is individually whatever it is. BUT, if what we have ascertained concerning the simplicity of this Nature is established, how is it substance...
Monologium. Chapter Vi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER VI. This Nature was not brought into existence with the help of any external cause, yet it does not exist through nothing, or derive existence from nothing. How existence through self, and derived from self, is conceivable. SINCE...
Monologium. Chapter Xii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XII. This expression of the supreme Being is the supreme Being. BUT since, as our reasoning shows, it is equally certain that whatever the supreme Substance created, it created through nothing other than itself; and whatever it...
Monologium. Chapter Xlviii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XLVIII. How the Son is the intelligence or wisdom of memory or the memory of the Father and of memory. BUT what is to be our notion of memory? Is the Son to be regarded as the intelligence conceiving of memory, or as the memory...
Proslogium. Chapter I : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER I. Exhortation of the mind to the contemplation of God. It casts aside cares, and excludes all thoughts save that of God, that it may seek Him. Man was created to see God. Man by sin lost the blessedness for which he was made...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxvii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXXVII. What is living, and what dead faith. HENCE, with however great confidence so important a truth is believed, the faith will be useless and, as it were, dead, unless it is strong and living through love. For, that the faith...
Monologium. Chapter Vii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER VII. In what way all other beings exist through this Nature and derive existence from it. THERE now remains the discussion of that whole class of beings that exist through another, as to how they exist through the supreme...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxiv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXXIV. The supreme Being is to be hoped for. BUT the human soul will by no means be able to train itself in this purpose, if it despairs of being able to reach what it aims at. Hence, devotion to effort is not more profitable...
Proslogium. Chapter Ix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER IX. How the alljust and supremely just God spares the wicked, and justly pities the wicked. He is better who is good to the righteous and the wicked than he who is good to the righteous alone. Although God is supremely just...
Monologium. Chapter Xx : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XX. It exists in every place and at every time. BUT, although it has been concluded above that this creative Nature exists everywhere, and in all things, and through all; and from the fact that it neither began, nor will cease...
Monologium. Chapter Xxiii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 81 CHAPTER XXIII. How it is better conceived to exist everywhere than in every place BUT, since it is plain that this supreme Nature is not more truly in all places than in all existing things, not as if it were contained by them, but...
Monologium. Chapter Xlv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 108 CHAPTER XLV. The Son may more appropriately be called the essence of the Father, than the Father the essence of the Son: and in like manner the Son is the virtue, wisdom, etc., of the Father. AND although, for reasons we have...
Proslogium. Chapter Xxv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 29 CHAPTER XXV. What goods and how great, belong to those who enjoy this good. Joy is multiplied in the blessed from the blessedness and joy of others. WHO shall enjoy this good? And what shall belong to him, and what shall not belong...
Monologium. Chapter Lxviii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXVIII. The rational creature was created in order that it might love this Being. IT seems to follow, then, that the rational creature ought to devote itself to nothing so earnestly as to the p. 131 expression, through voluntary...
Monologium. Chapter Liii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LIII. This love is identical with the supreme Spirit, and yet it is itself with the Father and the Son one spirit. BUT, what can be equal to the supreme Spirit, except the supreme Spirit? That love is, then, the supreme Spirit...
Bibliography : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], BIBLIOGRAPHY. "Patrologioe Cursus Completus." Series Secunda"." Tomi CLVIIICLIX. S. Anselmus. [Ed. ABBE MIGNE]. Paris, 1853. CHURCH. A. W. "St. Anselm." [Third Edition]. London, 1873 FRANCK, G F. "Anselm von Canterbury." Tubingen, 1842...
Proslogium. Chapter Iv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER IV. How the fool has said in his heart what cannot be conceived. A thing may be conceived in two ways: (1) when the word signifying it is conceived; (2) when the thing itself is understood As far as the word goes, God can be...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXXIX. This Essence itself is God, who alone is lord and ruler of all. IT appears, then nay, it is unhesitatingly declared that what is called God is not nothing; and that to this supreme Essence the name "God" is properly given...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 92 CHAPTER XXXII. The supreme Spirit expresses himself by a coeternal Word. BUT since this is true, how can what is simple Truth be the Word corresponding to those objects, of which it is not the likeness? Since every word by which...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxiii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXXIII. No soul is unjustly deprived of the supreme good, and every effort must be directed toward that good. BUT, which souls are unhesitatingly to be judged as so loving that for the love of which they were created, that they...
Monologium. Chapter Xl : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XL. He is most truly a parent, and that Word his offspring. BUT if it is most properly said to be born, and is so like him of whom it is born, why should it be esteemed "like", as a child is like his parent? why should it not...
Monologium. Chapter Xviii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XVIII. It is without beginning and without end. FROM what time, then, as this so simple Nature which creates and animates all things existed, or until what time is it to exist? Or rather, let us ask neither from what time, n...
Monologium. Chapter Lxii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXII. How it seems that of these three more sons than one are born. BUT perhaps the following observation will prove inconsistent with this assertion. It should not be doubted that the Father and the Son and their Spirit each...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXXV. Whatever has been created is in his Word and knowledge, life and truth. BUT, since it is established that his word is consubstantial with him, and perfectly like him, it necessarily follows that all things that exist in him...
Monologium. Chapter Xv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XV. What can or cannot be stated concerning the substance of this Being. NOT without reason I am now strongly impelled to inquire as earnestly as I am able, which of all the statements that may be made regarding anything is...
Monologium. Preface : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 34 ANSELM'S MONOLOGIUM ON THE BEING OF GOD. PREFACE. In this book Anselm discusses, under the form of a meditation, the Being of God, basing his argument not on the authority of Scripture, but on the force of reason. lt. contains...
Monologium. Chapter Lvii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 117 CHAPTER LVII. This love is uncreated and creator, as are Father and Son; and yet it is with them not three, but one uncreated and creative being. And it may be called the Spirit of Father and Son. BUT, since this love separately...
Monologium. Chapter Lii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LII. This love is as great as the supreme Spirit himself. HOW great, then, is this love of the supreme Spirit, common as it is to Father and Son! But, if he loves himself as much as he remembers and conceives of himself;...
Monologium. Chapter Xxvii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXVII. It is not included among substances as commonly treated, yet it is a substance and an indivisible spirit. IT is, therefore, evident that in any ordinary treatment of substance, this Substance cannot be included...
Monologium. Chapter Xlvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 109 CHAPTER XLVI. How some of these truths which are thus expounded may also be conceived of in another way. YET, some of these truths, which may be thus expounded and conceived of, are apparently capable of another interpretati...
Monologium. Chapter I : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER I. There is a being which is best, and greatest, and highest of all existing beings. IF any man, either from ignorance or unbelief, has no knowledge of the existence of one Nature which is highest of all existing beings, which is...
Proslogium. Chapter Xvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XVI. This is the unapproachable light wherein he dwells. TRULY, O Lord, this is the unapproachable light in which thou dwellest; for truly there is nothing else which can penetrate this light, that it may see thee there. Truly, I...
Monologium. Chapter Iii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER III. There is a certain Nature through which whatever is exists, and which exists through itself, and is the highest of all existing beings. THEREFORE, not only are all good things such through something that is one and the same...
Monologium. Chapter Lxiv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXIV. Though this truth is inexplicable, it demands belief. IT seems to me that the mystery of so sublime a subject transcends all the vision of the human intellectp. 126. And for that reason I think it best to refra...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxvii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXXVII. Whatever his relation to his creatures, this relation his Word also sustains: yet both do not simultaneously sustain this relation as more than one being. BUT since it has already been clearly demonstrated th...
Monologium. Chapter Xi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XI. The analogy, however, between the expression of the Creator and the expression of the artisan is very incomplete. BUT, though it is most certain that the supreme Substance expressed, as it were, within itself the whole...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXXI. This Word itself is not the likeness of created beings, but the reality of their being, while created beings are a kind of likeness of reality. What natures are greater and more excellent than others. BUT here, it seems...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxiv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXXIV. How he can express the created world by his Word. BUT how can objects so different as the creative and the created being be expressed by one Word, especially since that Word itself is coeternal with him who expresses them...
Proslogium. Chapter Ii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER II. Truly there is a God, although the fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. AND so, Lord, do thou, who dost give understanding to faith, give me, so far as thou knowest it to be profitable, to understand that thou art...
Proslogium. Preface : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 1 ANSELM'S PROSLOGIUM OR DISCOURSE ON THE EXISTENCE OF GOD PREFACE. In this brief work the author aims at proving in a single argument the existence of God, and whatsoever we believe of God. The difficulty of the task. The auth...
Monologium. Chapter Lxiii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 123 CHAPTER LXIII. How among them there is only one Son of one Father, that is, one Word, and that from the Father alone. ON these grounds, therefore, there apparently are in that Being, not only many fathers and sons and beings...
Monologium. Chapter Xix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XIX. In what sense nothing existed before or will exist after this Being. BUT here we are again confronted by the term "nothing", and whatever our reasoning thus far, with the concordant attestation of truth and necessity, h...
Monologium. Chapter V : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER V. Just as this Nature exists through itself, and other beings through it, so it derives existence from itself, and other beings from it. SEEING, then, that the truth already discovered has been satisfactorily demonstrated, it is...
Monologium. Chapter Xxviii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXVIII. This Spirit exists simply, and created beings are not comparable with him. IT seems to follow, then, from the preceding considerations, that the Spirit which exists in so wonderfully singular and so singularly wonderful...
Introduction : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. iii INTRODUCTION. THE present volume of St. Anselm's most important philosophical and theological writings contains: (1) The "Proslogium" (2) the "Monologium", (3) the "Cur Deus Homo", and (4) by way of historical complement...
Anselm's Philosophy : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], ANSELM'S PHILOSOPHY. (AFTER WEBER. 1 ) "The first really speculative thinker after Scotus is St. Anselmus, the disciple of Lanfranc. He was born at Aosta (1033), p. iv entered the monastery of Bec in Normandy (1060), succeeded Lanfranc...
Monologium. Chapter Liv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LIV. It proceeds as a whole from the Father, and as a whole from the Son, and yet does not exist except as one love. IT should be carefully considered whether there are two loves, one proceeding from the Father, the other...
Monologium. Chapter L : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER L. The same love proceeds equally from Father and Son. IT is, at any rate, clear to the rational man that he does not remember himself or conceive of himself because he loves himself, but he loves himself because he remembers...
Proslogium. Chapter Xxvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 32 CHAPTER XXVI. Is this joy which the Lord promises made full? The blessed shall rejoice according as they shall love; and they shall love according as they shall know. My God and my Lord, my hope and the joy of my heart, speak un...
Cur Deus Homo. Preface : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 175 ANSELM'S CUR DEUS HOMO. PREFACE. THE first part of this book was copied without my knowledge, before the work had been completed and revised. I have therefore been obliged to finish it as best I could, more hurriedly, and so more...
Proslogium. Chapter X : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER X. How he justly punishes and justly spares the wicked. God, in sparing the wicked, is just, according to his own nature because he does what is consistent with his goodness; but he is not just, according to our nature, because...
Monologium. Chapter Xiv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XIV. This Being is in all things, and throughout all; and all derive existence from it and exist through and in it. BUT if this is true rather, since this must be true, it follows that, where this Being is not, nothing is. It is...
Monologium. Chapter Lxvii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXVII. The mind itself is the mirror and image of that Being. THEREFORE, the mind may most fitly be said to be its own mirror wherein it contemplates, so to speak, the image of what it cannot see face to face. For, if the mind...
Monologium. Chapter X : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER X. This tbought is a kind of expression of the objects created (locutio rerum), like the expression which an artisan forms in his mind for what he intends to make. BUT this model of things, which preceded their creati...
Monologium. Chapter Lix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LIX. The Father and the Son and their Spirit exist equally the one in the other. IT is a most interesting consideration that the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit of both, exist in one p. 119 another with such equality that no...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxiii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXXIII. He utters himself and what he creates by a single consubstantial Word. BUT here, in my inquiry concerning the Word, by which the Creator expresses all that he creates, is suggested the word by which he, who creates all...
Proslogium. Chapter V : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER V. God is whatever it is better to be than not to be; and he, as the only selfexistent being, creates all things from nothing. WHAT art thou, then, Lord God, than whom nothing greater can be conceived? But what art thou, except...
Monologium. Chapter Lxix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXIX. The soul that ever loves this Essence lives at some time in true blessedness. BUT there is no doubt that the human soul is a rational creature. Hence, it must have been created for this end, that it might love the supreme...
Monologium. Chapter Lviii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LVIII. As the Son is the essence or wisdom of the Father in the sense that he has the same essence or wisdom that the Father has: so likewise the Spirit is the essence and wisdom etc. of Father and Son. ALSO, just as the Son is...
Monologium. Chapter Xxxix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXXIX. This Word derives existence from the supreme Spirit by birth. AND this truth, it seems, can be expressed in no more familiar terms than when it is said to be the property of the one, to be born of the other; ...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXXII. Every human soul is immortal. And it is either forever miserable, or at some time truly blessed. BUT if the soul is mortal, of course the loving soul is not eternally blessed, nor the soul that scorns this Being eternally...
Proslogium. Chapter Xxi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 26 CHAPTER XXI. Is this the age of the age, or ages of ages? The eternity of God contains the ages of time themselves, and can be called the age of the age or ages of ages. Is this, then, the age of the age, or ages of ages...
Monologium. Chapter Xli : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XLI. He most truly begets, and it is most truly begotten. BUT it will be impossible to establish this proposition, unless, in equal degree, he most truly begets, and it is most truly begotten. As the former supposition is...
Monologium. Chapter Iv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER IV. The same subject continued. FURTHERMORE, if one observes the nature of things he perceives, whether he will or no, that not all are embraced in a single degree of dignity; but that certain among them are distinguished by...
Monologium. Chapter Xxiv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXIV. How it is better understood to exist always than at every time. IT is also evident that this supreme Substance is without beginning and without end; that it has neither p. 82 past, nor future, nor the temporal, that is...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXXI. The soul that despises this being will be eternally miserable. FROM this it may be inferred, as a certain consequence, that the soul which despises the love of the supreme good will incur eternal misery. It might be said...
Proslogium. Chapter Xiii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XIII. How he alone is uncircumscribed and eternal, although other spirits are uncircumscribed and eternal. No place and time contain God. But he is himself everywhere and always. He alone not only does not cease to be, but also...
Proslogium. Chapter Xv : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XV. He is greater than can be conceived. THEREFORE, O Lord, thou art not only that than which a greater cannot be conceived, but thou art a being greater than can be conceived. For, since it can be conceived that there is such...
Monologium. Chapter Xlix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XLIX. The supreme Spirit loves himself. BUT, while I am here considering with interest the individual properties and the common attributes of Father and Son, I find none in them more pleasurable to contemplate than the feeling...
Proslogium. Chapter Xxiii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXIII. This good is equally Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit. And this is a single, necessary Being, which is every good, and wholly good, and the only good. Since the Word is true, and is truth itself, there is nothing...
Proslogium. Chapter Xix : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XIX. He does not exist in place or time, but all things exist in him. BUT if through thine eternity thou hast been, and art, and wilt be; and to have been is not to be destined to be; and to be is not to have been, or to be...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxvi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXXVI. We should believe in Father and Son and in their Spirit equally, and in each separately, and in the three at once. WE should believe, then, equally in the Father and in the Son and in their Spirit, and in each separately...
Monologium. Chapter Lxi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LXI. Yet there are not three, but one Father and one Son and one Spirit. AND here I see a question arises. For, if the Father is intelligence and love as well as memory, and the Son is memory and love as well as intelligence...
Monologium. Chapter Li : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER LI. Each loves himself and the other with equal love. BUT if the supreme Spirit loves himself, no doubt the Father loves himself, the Son loves himself, and the one the other; since the Father separately is the supreme Spirit...
Monologium. Chapter Lxxviii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 140 CHAPTER LXXVIII. The supreme Being may in some sort be called Three. AND so it is evidently expedient for every man to believe in a certain ineffable trinal unity, and in one Trinity; one and a unity because of its one essence...
Proslogium. Chapter Vi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER VI. How God is sensible (sensibilis) although he is not a body. God is sensible, omnipotent, compassionate, passionless; for it is better to be these than not be. He who in any way knows, is not improperly said in some sort...
Monologium. Chapter Xxi : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XXI. It exists in no place or time. BUT, if this is true, either it exists in every place and at every time, or else only a part of it so exists, the other part transcending every place and time. But, if in part it exists...
Appendix. In Behalf Of The Fool : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], p. 143 APPENDIX. IN BEHALF OF THE FOOL. AN ANSWER TO THE ARGUMENT OF ANSELM IN THE PROSLOGIUM. BY GAUNILON, A MONK OF MARMOUTIER. 1. IF one doubts or denies the existence of a being of such a nature that nothing greater than it can be...
Proslogium. Chapter Xvii : * "Works of St. Anselm", tr. by Sidney Norton Deane, [1903], CHAPTER XVII. In God is harmony, fragrance, sweetness, pleasantness to the touch, beauty, after his ineffable manner. STILL thou art hidden, O Lord, from my soul in thy light and thy blessedness; and therefore my soul still walks in its...