Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

306 Saint Anselm was born to a noble family in Aosta, in what is now Italy. Following a youth of travel and learning, Anselm joi ...

INTRODUCTION 307 Anselm’s argument was attacked by a fellow monk named Gaunilo. Anselm’s exchange with Gaunilo has been preserve ...

308 ANSELM(ANDGAUNILO) PROSLOGION [in part] PREFACE Some time ago at the pressing invitation of some brethren I did a small work ...

PROSLOGION 309 it be then that there is no such nature, since “the fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’ ” [Ps. 13:1]? But s ...

310 ANSELM(ANDGAUNILO) something; in another sense, we think of it when we think of the thing itself. In the first sense, then, ...

GAUNILO ANDANSELM: DEBATE 311 thinks this thinks of something greater than if it were only in the intellect? What follows more l ...

312 ANSELM(ANDGAUNILO) The Romanesque Cathedral a. Exterior view of the Abbey Church of the Madeleine, Vezelay, France,built in ...

GAUNILO ANDANSELM: DEBATE 313 GAUNILO:[7.] As for the statement that it is inconceivable that the highest thing of all should no ...

314 The monasteries and convents were as important to the intellectual life of twelfth-century Europe as were the developing uni ...

INTRODUCTION 315 it in depraved men.... Beware,therefore, of wanting to associate yourself with the ways of the pagans, lest you ...

316 HILDEGARD OFBINGEN SCIVIAS (in part) BOOKI, VISION 4 16: ANINFANTISVIVIFIED IN THEWOMB ANDCONFIRMED BY ASOUL ONLEAVINGIT And ...

SCIVIAS 317 Body and Soul, from an early edition of Scivias. One of the souls in heaven (represented by the eyes) is entering th ...

318 HILDEGARD OFBINGEN shows itself by its brilliance. Therefore, O human, who are not just a bundle of marrow, pay attention to ...

SCIVIAS 319 22: HOW IN THEWILL’STABERNACLEALLPOWERS AREACTIVATED ANDCOMETOGETHER But the will has in the human breast a tabernac ...

320 HILDEGARD OFBINGEN the soul’s interior. For the soul emanates the senses. How? It vivifies a person’s face and glorifies him ...

321 Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (referred to by Jewish scholars as “Rambam” for “Rabbi Moses ben Maimon”), was born at 1:00 ...

322 MOSESMAIMONIDES philosophy (with some Neoplatonic spin), Maimonides believed he could answer a number of philosophical quest ...

THEGUIDE FOR THEPERPLEXED 323 THE GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED (in part) PARTII INTRODUCTION:Twenty-five of the propositions which ar ...

324 MOSESMAIMONIDES PROPOSITION VII: Things which are changeable are, at the same time, divisible. Hence everything that moves i ...

THEGUIDE FOR THEPERPLEXED 325 remains for some time in the same condition as before, and yet cannot move in the manner it has mo ...