Anselm of Canterbury and Scholastic Thought
Journal Title: International Scientific and Vocational Studies Journal - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 2
Abstract
Anselm lived between 1033-1109. He's an Italian. Throughout his life, he has alsobeen a monk, a pastor. But in a short time he became a renowned philosopher by finding intelligent solutions to the problems of God's being and was appointed Archbishop of Canterbury in 1109. Anselm has argued that the concepts of God, reasonand belief are a whole, and that reason is necessary to understand God, but that faith must first be believed. Scholastic thought emerged at the end of the development of the dialectic, one of the branches of trivium knowledge. Dialectics is the art of discussion by way of questions and answers. Here thefather of the scholastic was Anselm of Canterbury who adopted the dialectic as the basic method of ideological thinking. Anselm, In the XII. century, he made the definition of mind and led people to think. Thus, dialectical thought emerged. Anselm has indicated that God exists, that it cannot be denied, but that it can be understood through reason. XII. In the century God and reason became the cornerstone of Christian humanism. For this reason, Anselm is alsorecognized as an importanthumanist. In this study, we will talk about the studies of Anselm of Canterbury as well as the changes happened in the Medieval Europe after the scolastic belief started to be active at universities and also we will talk about the effects of scholasticism.
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Banu Ünal
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