Gaunilo’s In Behalf of the Fool and Anselm’s Reply
The exchange on the argument of the Proslogion: the monk Gaunilo’s “In Behalf of the Fool” in eight sections (the lost-island objection) and Anselm’s reply in ten chapters. The Latin is the Migne text (Patrologia Latina 158, 1853): Anselm’s reply from a machine-corrected OCR, Gaunilo from Latin Wikisource; the English is Sidney Norton Deane’s 1903 translation, which follows the Latin section for section.
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Source: The complete text with its chapter divisions and PL chapter summaries. PL page breaks, the column numbers and the apparatus of alternative chapter numbers (al.) are dropped; Scripture references stay in parentheses as printed. The OCR carries a few residual slips. · Gaunilo’s eight sections, with the PL column markers dropped. · Gaunilon’s “In Behalf of the Fool” and Anselm’s Apologetic (Deane’s introduction and notes are not imported). Chapter titles are Deane’s chapter summaries; translator’s notes are kept as footnotes.