Anselm of Canterbury and His Theological Inheritance. Giles E. M. Gasper

Giles Gaudineau and His Medicines

GILES GAUDINEAU was one of the early French doctors to reside in New York City. On 26 August 1686 Giles, Susanna and Ellena Gaudineau were granted denization in New York, with liberty to trade and traffice and on 8 October Giles was commissioned lieutenant of foot under Captain Minvielle.' Dr. Gaudineau, together with a number of other foreign-born Frenchmen, on 18 August 1687, sent to Governor...

Saint Anselm and his students writing about love: a theological foundation for the rise of romantic love in Europe.

Anselm’s Logic of Agency

The origins of treating agency as a modal concept go back at least to the 11th century when Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, provided a modal explication of the Latin facere ‘to do’, which can be formalized within the context of modern modal logic and neighborhood semantics. The agentive logic induced by his conception satisfies the traditional square of opposition, but also has some unique pr...

The Role of Fakr Razi’s Theological Presuppositions his Interpretation of the verses about Determinism and Free Will

Abstract: According to the prophetic traditions Interpreting Qur’anic verses based on personal opinions is one of the important points that should be avoided. One of its examples is involving personal theological opinions and principles -which are merely unrevised personal inferences- in interpretation of Quran. Fakhr Razi, according to the Ash'arites, has a deterministic view.  This is quite ...

Anselm and Actuality

Philosophy abounds in troublesome modal arguments-endlessly debated, perennially plausible, perennially suspect. The standards of validity for modal reasoning have long been unclear; they become clear only when we provide a semantic analysis of modal logic by reference to possible worlds and to possible things therein.2 Thus insofar as we understand modal reasoning at all, we understand it as d...