RELS 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gaunilo Of Marmoutiers, Peter Damian, Lanfranc
15 Feb 2017
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Peter damian: 11th century monk, ascetic lifestyle, claimed human reason is incapable of properly understanding divine revelation. Lanfranc: benedictine, argued humans are created in god"s image, humans must have abilities to grasp something of divine reality. Anselm 1033-1109: human reason and divine revelation lead to the same conclusions, books, monologion. Supreme nature is unchangeable and unknowable: proslogian. If the being which we think when we think of god is indeed the greatest possible being that anyone can think of, then this being must exist in our understanding, our mind, and outside our mind. If a absolutely perfect being exists in the understanding alone then we can think of a more perfect being that is greater than the absolutely perfect being, namely one that exists in the mind and outside of it. How can we think of something greater than the greatest. God must exist in and outside of our minds.
