Anselm of Canterbury and Scholastic Thought

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 2, 93 - 98, 31.12.2018

Banu Ünal

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. 

Keywords

Medieval, Europe, Anselm, Scholastic Thought

Anselm of Canterbury and Scholastic Thought

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. 

Keywords

Medieval, Europe, Anselm, Scholastic Thought

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