What is it about?
Until now Cicero and the roman law book Corpus Iuris Civilis are not seen as sources for the thought of Anselm's on justice and satisfaction. But is probably that they are, especially because they were important book in the places were Anselm was educated. These sources clarify what Anselm meant with justice and with the rationality of justice. They show also why is Anselm was justified to think there was common ground between christian and non-christians. Rationality for Anselm has not to be confused with the way how rationality is seen later in the European history of philosophy but has to be considered as a way of common reason, comparable with the way of reasoning of Cicero.
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These article show that the rationality of Anselm is not as it has until know has been understood. Further, it shows that Anselm thought on justice has not (only) to be interpreted from a feudal context, but from the context of the revival of jurisprudence in the eleventh century
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I was impressed how Roman sources could have been available for Anselm and how Anselm's thought can be far more better embedded in the juridical context of his time. Further, I was fascinated what interdisciplinary research between classical studies, medieval studies and history of theology deliver as results.
Bernard van Vreeswijk
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This page is a summary of: Anselm on Justice, Nature and Reason, December 2024, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004716308_017.
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