What Justice Owes to Knowledge: A Study in Anselm’s Ethics

Christian Brouwer

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A Study in Anselm’s Ethics

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Pages:: 232–248

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004716308_012

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In the 1080s, Anselm wrote three dialogues devoted to the study of Scripture, as he said. Nevertheless, ethical topics are omnipresent in these writings, from the definition of truth and justice to the analysis of the fall of the devil. This chapter is intended to explore the relations between justice and knowledge, trying to answer the following question: Which is the knowledge necessary to act justly? In order to answer this question, we shall examine the following main topics. First, is justice located in knowledge, in the will, or in the actions? Second, the role of knowledge in just acts. Third, we shall study justice as the finality of rational beings. And fourth we shall analyse the knowledge the devil had before sinning. On the way we shall try to specify some characteristics of Anselm’s ethics.

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Anselm of Canterbury

Nature, Order and the Divine

Series: Anselm Studies and Texts, Volume: 8

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004716308

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Dec 2024

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