And he also had much to say on a range of other topics, some of it still well worth attention. Anselm had much more to offer about God than a single argument for His existence. Many philosophers and students of philosophy know little about them, which is regrettable. Yet the rest of Anselm’s writings have been less subject to scrutiny. Commonly said to contain the first “ontological argument” for God’s existence, they are widely read and studied even at the undergraduate level, and they continue to puzzle both atheist and theist philosophers. Two chapters of his third major work (Proslogion 2 and 3) are almost notorious. Anselm of Canterbury is at once one of the best- and least-known of medieval thinkers.
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