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Anselm of canterbury.

Western Philosophy
Medieval philosophy

Name: Anselm of Canterbury
Birth: 1033 (Aosta, Burgundy)
Death: April 21, 1109 (Canterbury, England)
School/tradition: Founder of Scholasticism
Main interests
Metaphysics (incl.

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    • Theology)

    Notable ideas
    Ontological argument
    Influences Influenced
    Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Gregory the GreatBonaventure, Aquinas, Leibniz, Hegel

    Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033 – April 21, 1109) was an Italian medieval philosopher, theologian, and church official who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109.

    He was one of the most important Christian thinkers of the eleventh century. Called the founder of scholasticism, he is famous as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God and as the archbishop who openly opposed the Crusades.

    But his thinking extended to many other philosophical and theological topics, including, among others, the aspects and unity of the n