Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Proslogion
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Proslogion.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Anselm of Canterbury.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas explicitly names and rejects Anselm's Proslogion argument that God's existence is self-evident, in the Summa Theologiae's opening question on the existence of God (Prima Pars, q.2, a.1).