In defense of common sense : Lorenzo Valla's humanist critique of scholastic philosophy /
Nauta, Lodi.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-395) and index.
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."
Valla, Lorenzo, 1407-1457.
Humanism.
Scholasticism.