Keywords
Teleology
Righteousness of the will
Happiness
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Abstract
This paper aims to present the fundamental lines of the ethical thought of Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) developed in the trilogy of treatises dedicated to the study of Holy Scripture, De Veritate, De Libertate Arbitrii and De Casu Diaboli, as well as try to indicate the nature of his ethics: whether deontological or teleological-eudaimonist. To this end, I will first give a brief outline of Anselmian ethics and show how difficult it is to categorize it. In a second moment, I will list both arguments that allow categorizing it as deontological and arguments that allow categorizing it as teleological-eudaimonistic. In the end, I show that, although it does contain what we could call a theory of happiness, Anselmian ethical thought seems to be essentially deontological insofar as it is based on the concept of righteousness of the will or justice.
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