A history of reasonableness : testimony and authority in the art of thinking /
A defense of the social operation of thinking, with an emphasis on testimony and authority. This book describes a lost tradition that can be called reasonableness. The tradition began with Aristotle, was recommended to Western education by Augustine, flourished in the schools of the Renaissance thro...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Rochester, N.Y. :
University of Rochester Press
2004.
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| Series: | Rochester studies in philosophy ;
v. 7. |
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt1f89rwm |
Table of Contents:
- The classical tradition of testimony in topics
- Three medieval traditions : Augustine, Boethius, and Cassiodoras
- Two renaissance traditions : Ciceronian and Augustinian
- The long influence of the port-royal logic
- Appreciating Aristotle : Thomists, Scots, and Oxford noetics
- Testimony becomes experience : the rise of critical thinking.