When1: 1070
When2: 1093
Who: Anselm
What: bishop
Where: Canterbury, England
works\ Monologues [1070 to 1093]; Discourse [1070 to 1093]; On Truth [1070 to 1093]; On the Fall of the Devil [1070 to 1093]; Why Did God Become Man? [1070 to 1093]
Detail: He lived 1033 to 1109, was Benedictine, was archbishop, upheld church's power to appoint bishops [1093], and is Father of Scholasticism. He said, "I believe so I may understand" {credo ut intelligam}.
Epistemology
Understanding needs faith.
People can conceive of highest being.
Ethics
All things should be their best. People strive for their benefit and for justice.
Metaphysics
God exists, as shown by the following argument {ontological argument, Anselm}. Mind can conceive of existence that is greater than anything else conceivable, and this must actually be the greatest thing in reality, because existence is necessary to be good and highest.
Highest being that causes all other being through its essence must exist, because cause must be greater than effect. Highest being can only exist by its essence as necessity, because it is being itself. All good things must come from and through supreme, self-existing, necessary, perfect, universal, single, and whole being. Things are similar to the supreme but in different degrees. God created everything, which is in God. Amount of being is amount of Good.
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