Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 239 pages)
Edition:
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9789027286840
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1283144093
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9781283144094
Series Statement:
Controversies volume 9
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication page; Table of contents; Introduction: Dialectic and the notion of tradition; 1. Aristotle and the art of dialectic; 1.1 Dialectic and the aporetic method; 1.1.1 What dialectic is and how it works; 1.1.2 The uses of dialectic and its epistemic function; 1.2.1 The Sophistical Refutations; 1.2.2 The eighth book of the Topics; 1.3.1 Rhetorical and dialectical invention; 1.4 Conclusions: Dialectical reasoning, assent and necessity
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2. Dialectic in the Latin world: Cicero, Boethius and the scholastics2.1 Cicero: rhetoric and reasoning in utramque partem; 2.1.2 Disputation and probable reasoning; 2.2 Boethius, the Topics and the liberal arts; 3. The revival of dialectic in the Renaissance: An introduction; 4. The new humanist dialectic and rhetoric; 4.1 Renaissance Humanism and the revenge of rhetoric; 4.1.1 Philosophy against persuasion; 4.1.2 Dialectic and sophistry; 4.2 Rudolph Agricola and the reform of dialectic; 4.3 Invention and judgment; 4.3.1 The places; 4.3.2 The field of dialectical invention
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4.3.3 The use of arguments: Affects and disposition4.4 Probability: Proof and things; 4.5 Conclusions: Argument, persuasion and invention; 5. The Topics and Renaissance Aristotelianism; 5.1 Renaissance Aristotelianism and dialectic; 5.1.1 Alexander of Aphrodisias: Aristotelian dialectic and the art of debate; 5.1.2 Averroes: The art of logic and kinds of assent; 5.1.3 Aristotelianism and Humanism; 5.2 Agostino Nifo between Averroism and Alexandrinism; 5.3 The meaning of dialectic; 5.3.1 Dialectic and demonstration; 5.3.2 Probability and disputation; 5.4 The uses of dialectic and knowledge
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5.4.2 Dialectic and the principles of science5.5 Different types of dialectic and disputation; 6. Dialectic and dialogue; 6.1.1 The historical and intellectual origins of dialogue; 6.1.5 The forms and aims of dialogue; 6.2.2 Imitation, illusion and invention; 7. Rhetoric and dialectic; Conclusion: The epistemological value of Aristotelian dialectic; Notes; References; Name index; Subject index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027218896
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283143593
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Spranzi, Marta The art of dialectic between dialogue and rhetoric Amsterdam : John Benjamins Pub. Co, 2011 ISBN 9027218897
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9027286841
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027218896
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789027286840
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Italien
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Dialektik
;
Humanismus
;
Renaissance
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