Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-18T05:24:39.255Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Anselm, Truth, and Necessary Being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

William H. Baumer
William H. Baumer
Affiliation:
The University of North Dakota.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Discussion
Information
Philosophy , Volume 37 , Issue 141 , July 1962 , pp. 257 - 258
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1962

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 257 note 1 Yolton, J. W., ‘Professor Malcolm on St Anselm, Belief, and Existence’, Philosophy, Vol. 36, 1961, pp. 367–370CrossRefGoogle Scholar;Malcolm, N., ‘Anselm's Ontological Arguments’, Philosophhical Review, Vol. 69, 1960, pp. 41–62CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Alston, W. P., ‘The Ontological Argument Revisited’, Philosophical Review, Vol. 69, 1960, pp. 452–474.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 257 note 2 The quote is from McKeon's translation: R. McKeon, Selections From Medieval Philosophers, Vol. I, New York, 1929, pp. 153, 154. Anselm's Dialogous de Veritate is in J . P. Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completes, Series Latina, Vol. 158, cols. 467–486.

page 257 note 3 McKeon, op. cit., pp. 142–149. E. Gilson, ‘Sens et Nature de l'Argument de Saint Anselm’, Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Litteraire du Moyen Age, Neuvième Année, 1934, pp. 5–51, n.b. p. 10.

page 257 note 4 Gilson, op. cit., p. 15.

page 257 note 5 Yolton, op. cit., pp. 369–370.

page 258 note 1 Malcolm, op. cit., pp. 42, 50, 52.

page 258 note 2 Ibid., p. 45; cf. Anselm, Proslogion 2, 3.

page 258 note 3 My debt to Prof. J. R. Weinberg of the University of Wisconsin, who first pointed out to me the importance of Anselm's view of truth and directed me to Gilson's essay, must be acknowledged. He is not, of course, responsible for any errors in this note.