Proslogion
Sign in to saveThe Proslogion () is a prayer (or meditation) written by the medieval cleric Saint Anselm of Canterbury between 1077 and 1078. In each chapter, Anselm juxtaposes contrasting attributes of God to resolve apparent contradictions in Christian theology. This meditation is considered the first-known philosophical formulation that sets out an ontological argument for the existence of God.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Proslogion is referenced by 251 other articles, and connects out to philosophy, Latin and Middle Ages.
It is catalogued under topics including 1070s books, 11th-century books in Latin and 11th-century Christian texts.
Its subject is documented across 14 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Book.name
- Proslogion
- Book.image
- Illuminated initial from Anselm's Monologion.jpg
- Book.caption
- Illuminated initial from the beginning of the prologue to Anselm's Monologion, late 11th century
- Book.author
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Book.title_orig
- Fides quaerens intellectum
- Book.orig_lang_code
- la
- Book.language
- Medieval Latin
- Book.pub_date
- 1078
- Book.wikisource
- Proslogion
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- reference work
- Author
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Genre
- essay
- Follows
- Monologion
- Main subject
- ontological argument
- Image
- AnselmCanterbury2.jpg
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- copyright status
- public domain
- publication date
- 1078-00-00
- language of work or name
- medieval Latin
- form of creative work
- prose
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Ontological arguments
- First argument
- Second argument
- Formal Reconstruction in a set theoretic form (by Gyorgy Gereby)
- Vocabulary for the argument in a set logical form
- The Argument of Anselm
- Supplement
- Chapters
- Translations
- Chapter I
- Editions
- References
The Proslogion () is a prayer (or meditation) written by the medieval cleric Saint Anselm of Canterbury between 1077 and 1078. In each chapter, Anselm juxtaposes contrasting attributes of God to resolve apparent contradictions in Christian theology. This meditation is considered the first-known philosophical formulation that sets out an ontological argument for the existence of God.
The original title for this discourse was to be Faith Seeking Understanding.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Proslogion” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.