Anselm's Linguistic Pitfall (Anselm's Proslogion Book 1)

The Benedictine monk, Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) particularly owes his reputation to 'a very cryptic attempt', to proof the existence of a God. He tried to do so, basing himself on a remarkable God definition: 'something in comparison with which nothing greater can be thought of'. Recently, a philosopher choose for his book the rather significant title: 'A Dazzling Darkness'. It is a short, complicated argumentation try. One day, contrary to expectations, as Anselm relates himself, that compact, complicated, cryptic argumentation 'crossed his mind' ('se obtulit').
The critical judgment of the famous philosopher Immanuel Kant isn't bearing at all on Anselm's proof, but exclusively on those other, well-known arguments of Descartes and Leibniz. Those proofs have been built up in a completely different way, having a structure and forming an argumentation which are completely different from Anselm's notorious reasoning. Besides, as we yet know, Kant never saw nor read Anselm's specific text.
Composing these writings Mattias Vanderhoydonks was fortunate to obtain great support from no less scholars than professor Jaap Kruithof (Ghent University) and professor Hubert Dethier (Brussels & Amsterdam Universities). Professor H. Dethier particularly admired Vanderhoydonks’ accuracy in phrasing his ideas, whereas J. Kruithof wrote about an earlier book: 'This exposition is a real example of a thorough, solid and profound philosophical analysis.'