I had not considered Anselm's argument as one designed to appeal to
simpler people. It has never struck me as all that accessible at any
level and it certainly doesn't seem to strike my students that way. Is
there any evidence that the Proslogion circulated beyond a fairly elite
monastic environment or that it was intended to do so? Or that anyone
subsequently tried to use the argument in any context which we might call
popular?
Ian Wei
University of Bristol
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