In defense of common sense
Subtitle: Lorenzo Valla's humanist critique of scholastic philosophy
By: Lodi Nauta.
Series: I Tatti studies in Italian renaissance history
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780674032699
Subjects: Valla, Lorenzo, -- 1407-1457; Humanism; Scholasticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The attack on aristotelian-scholastic metaphysics; title: The analysis of things : substance, quality, and the tree of porphyry; title: Thing and word : a critique of transcendental terms; title: From a grammatical point of view : the reduction of the categories; title: Soul, nature, morality, and God; title: Soul and nature : a critique of aristotelian psychology and natural philosophy; title: The virtues and the road to heavenly pleasure; title: Speaking about the ineffable : the Trinity; title: Towards a humanist dialectic; title: Dialectic I : propositions, the square of contraries, proof, and argument; title: Dialectic II : forms of argumentation; title: Conclusion: Valla and "ordinary language philosophy".