Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : it
Pages : 270
Book Description
Atti del XII Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia (Venezia, 12-18 Settembre 1958): Paduan Aristotelianism and Aristotelian philosophy
Author: The Art of Dialectic Between Dialogue and Rhetoric
Author: Marta SpranziPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027218897
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's "Topics," its founding text, up to its "renaissance" in 16th century Italy, and focuses on the role of dialectic in the production of knowledge. Aristotle defines dialectic as a structured exchange of questions and answers and thus links it to dialogue and disputation, while Cicero develops a mildly skeptical version of dialectic, identifies it with reasoning "in utramque partem" and connects it closely to rhetoric. These two interpretations constitute the backbone of the living tradition of dialectic and are variously developed in the Renaissance against the Medieval background. The book scrutinizes three separate contexts in which these developments occur: Rudolph Agricola's attempt to develop a new dialectic in close connection with rhetoric, Agostino Nifo's thoroughly Aristotelian approach and its use of the newly translated commentaries of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Averroes, and Carlo Sigonio's literary theory of the dialogue form, which is centered around Aristotle's "Topics." Today, Aristotelian dialectic enjoys a new life within argumentation theory: the final chapter of the book briefly revisits these contemporary developments and draws some general epistemological conclusions linking the tradition of dialectic to a fallibilist view of knowledge.
Atti
Author: Humanism, Universities, and Jesuit Education in Late Renaissance Italy
Author: Paul F. GrendlerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004510281
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
An authoritative account of the intellectual and educational history of the late Italian Renaissance. Twenty essays on major themes, institutions, and persons of the Italian Renaissance by one of its most distinguished living historians.
Proceedings
Author: Atti del XII Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia (Venezia, 12-18 Settembre 1958): Official speeches of the closing session
Author: Kristeller Reconsidered
Author: John MonfasaniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
"[Fifteen scholars examine the life and thought of Paul Oskar Kristeller (1905-1999) to uncover the relationship between the man and his interpretation of Renaissance humanism and its relation to intellectual and cultural life]"--Provided by publisher.
Cultural Contacts in Building a Universal Civilisation
Author: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and CulturePublisher: O.I.C. Research Centre for Isl Rcica
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Category : Art, Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904740727X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
This volume analyses the renewal of Western moral thought in the twelfth century. This renewal was marked by a burgeoning of increasingly systematized texts, a lively reception of ancient moral philosophy and a greater emphasis on the psychology of the moral agent. Five contributions are devoted to monastic morality (Anselm of Canterbury, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hugh of Folieto, Hugh of Saint Victor, Peter Abelard); another five to (proto-)scholastic thought (John of Salisbury, Peter Abelard, Stephen Langton, the idea of natural virtue, the justification of lying); three discuss moral issues in a wider social context (liberality vs. avarice, royal justice in England, the cardinal virtues and the French monarchy). The two remaining contributions explore ethical traditions in Islamic and Jewish philosophy. With contributions by István P. Bejczy, Céline Billot-Vilandreau, Marcia L. Colish, Jeroen Laemers, John Kitchen, Cary J. Nederman, Richard G. Newhauser, Willemien Otten, Burcht Pranger, Riccardo Quinto, Ineke van ’t Spijker, Arjo Vanderjagt, Björn Weiler and George Wilkes.
Logic and the Art of Memory
Author: Paolo RossiPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226728269
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
The mnemonic arts and the idea of a universal language that would capture the essence of all things were originally associated with cryptology, mysticism, and other occult practices. And it is commonly held that these enigmatic efforts were abandoned with the development of formal logic in the seventeenth century and the beginning of the modern era. In his distinguished book, Logic and the Art of Memory Italian philosopher and historian Paolo Rossi argues that this view is belied by an examination of the history of the idea of a universal language. Based on comprehensive analyses of original texts, Rossi traces the development of this idea from late medieval thinkers such as Ramon Lull through Bruno, Bacon, Descartes, and finally Leibniz in the seventeenth century. The search for a symbolic mode of communication that would be intelligible to everyone was not a mere vestige of magical thinking and occult sciences, but a fundamental component of Renaissance and Enlightenment thought. Seen from this perspective, modern science and combinatorial logic represent not a break from the past but rather its full maturity. Available for the first time in English, this book (originally titled Clavis Universalis) remains one of the most important contributions to the history of ideas ever written. In addition to his eagerly anticipated translation, Steven Clucas offers a substantial introduction that places this book in the context of other recent works on this fascinating subject. A rich history and valuable sourcebook, Logic and the Art of Memory documents an essential chapter in the development of human reason.