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Monologion

Disciplines:
philosophy
theology

Summary

Anselm of Canterbury's earlier work arguing for God's existence from the degrees of goodness observed in created things, ascending to the supreme good from which all participate.

Core Contribution

A posteriori argument for God's existence from the comparative degrees of perfection in things: there must be something through which all things are good, and this must be supreme good itself.

Historical Influences

Anselm of Canterbury

Intellectual Lineage

No conceptual lineage found.

Allied Works

Proslogion Summa Theologica

Contemporaries & Peers

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Minds Influenced

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Intellectual Posterity

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