The Neoplatonic Metaphysics and Epistemology of Anselm of Canterbury (Studies in the History of Philosophy)

By Katherin A. Rogers

This work argues that Anselm was a Christian neoplatonist of the Augustinian variety, and that thus he was the inheritor of a powerful and systematic metaphysics and epistemology. The view that the world is an image of the divine mind and its ideas, a fragmented and temporal copy of of the perfect, eternal unity which is God, led Anselm to a strong exemplarism on the doctrine of the universals, and ultimately to a theistic idealism. This discussion concludes with a neoplatonic interpretation and defence of his work, the Proslogion, proof for the existence of God.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773486224
• ISBN13: 9780773486225
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"