Similis Deo or Cum Deo Esse?: On Happiness and the Convergence of Proto-Kantian and Aristotelian (as well as Augustinian) Motives in Anselm’s Analysis of Moral Choice

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Chapter 12 Similis Deo or Cum Deo Esse?

On Happiness and the Convergence of Proto-Kantian and Aristotelian (as well as Augustinian) Motives in Anselm’s Analysis of Moral Choice

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Pages:: 265–287

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004716308_014

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The chapter responds to K. Rogers’ claim that Anselm should be seen as an Aristotelian rather than a proto-Kantian thinker. It does so by pointing out common themes in virtue ethics and Kant’s deontology (focusing on anthropological foundations) and by emphasizing the Augustinian background Kant shares with Anselm. Kant, too, acknowledges the central role of happiness as human fulfillment, and he might even agree that we should distinguish between two forms of fulfilling what Anselm calls the ‘desire for happiness’: being like God (similis Deo esse) and being with God (cum Deo esse). This distinction marks the difference between a ‘purely’ Aristotelian and a properly Christian virtue ethics account of happiness. Anselm is not so much an Aristotelian eudaemonist but an Augustinian ‘beatitudinist’.

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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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Chapter 12 Similis Deo or Cum Deo Esse?

On Happiness and the Convergence of Proto-Kantian and Aristotelian (as well as Augustinian) Motives in Anselm’s Analysis of Moral Choice

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