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In defense of common sense : Lorenzo Valla's humanist critique of scholastic philosophy / Lodi Nauta.
Van Pelt Library B785.V1144 N38 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nauta, Lodi.
- Series:
- I Tatti studies in Italian Renaissance history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457.
- Valla, Lorenzo.
- Humanism.
- Scholasticism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The attack on Aristotelian-scholastic metaphysics
- The analysis of things : substance, quality, and the tree of porphyry
- Thing and word : a critique of transcendental terms
- From a grammatical point of view : the reduction of the categories
- Soul, nature, morality, and God
- Soul and nature : a critique of Aristotelian psychology and natural philosophy
- The virtues and the road to heavenly pleasure
- Speaking about the ineffable : the Trinity
- Toward a humanist dialectic
- Dialectic I : propositions, the square of contraries, proof and argument
- Dialectic II : forms of argumentation
- Conclusion: Valla and "ordinary language philosophy."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [375]-395) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674032699
- 0674032691
- OCLC:
- 246197900
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