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In defense of common sense: Lorenzo Valla's humanist critique of scholastic philosophy

Lodi Nauta 2009 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Series
  • Villa I Tatti
ISBN(s)
  • 9780674032699 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Philosophy
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • PART ONE The Attack on Aristotelian-Scholastic Metaphysics
    • 1 The Analysis of Things: Substance, Quality, and the Tree of Porphyry (page 13)
    • 2 Thing and Word: A Critique of Transcendental Terms (page 48)
    • 3 From a Grammatical Point of View: The Reduction of the Categories (page 82)
  • PART TWO Soul, Nature, Morality, and God
    • 4 Soul and Nature: A Critique of Aristotelian Psychology and Natural Philosophy (page 129)
    • 5 The Virtues and the Road to Heavenly Pleasure (page 152)
    • 6 Speaking about the Ineffable: The Trinity (page 191)
  • PART THREE Toward a Humanistic Dialectic
    • 7 Dialectic I: Propositions, the Square of Contraries, Proof and Argument (page 211)
    • 8 Dialectic II: Forms of Argumentation (page 239)
    • Conclusion: Valla and "Ordinary Language Philosophy" (page 269)
  • List of Abbreviations (page 293)
  • Notes (page 295)
  • Bibliography (page 375)
  • Index (page 397)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
SP 88.1 (Jan. 2013): 323-324 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23488763
RQ 64.3 (Fall 2011): 876-877 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/662853
COM 41.1 (2010): 279-281 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comitatus/summary/v041/41.fogleman.html
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