Lorenzo Valla’s Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae
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Lorenzo Valla’s *Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae* is a seminal humanist treatise that attacks scholastic logic and philosophy in favor of a rhetoric-centered, philological approach to knowledge and ethics.
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Target entity: Lorenzo Valla’s Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae Target entity description: Lorenzo Valla’s *Repastinatio dialecticae et philosophiae* is a seminal humanist treatise that attacks scholastic logic and philosophy in favor of a rhetoric-centered, philological approach to knowledge and ethics.
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A.
Nicholas of Cusa's De docta ignorantia
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B.
Tusculanae Disputationes
Tusculanae Disputationes is a series of philosophical dialogues by Cicero that explore themes such as death, pain, grief, and the pursuit of happiness from a Roman Stoic-influenced perspective.
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C.
Disputationes metaphysicae
Disputationes metaphysicae is a seminal late 16th-century work of scholastic philosophy that systematically presents Francisco Suárez’s influential account of metaphysics, bridging medieval and early modern thought.
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D.
Disputation with the Doctors
Disputation with the Doctors is a New Testament scene in Christian art depicting the young Jesus engaging in learned debate with teachers in the Jerusalem Temple.
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E.
Peter Lombard’s Sentences
Peter Lombard’s Sentences is a 12th-century theological textbook that systematically compiles and organizes patristic and medieval Christian doctrine, becoming the standard foundation for scholastic theology and commentary in the later Middle Ages.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Latin prose work
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humanist work ⓘ philosophical treatise ⓘ |
| advocates |
ethics grounded in ordinary language
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philological method in philosophy ⓘ rhetoric-centered approach to knowledge ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
align philosophy with rhetoric
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reform logic ⓘ restore classical Latin standards in philosophical discourse ⓘ |
| associatedWith | critique of medieval logical subtleties ⓘ |
| author | Lorenzo Valla NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| concerns |
ethical deliberation in everyday life
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logic as an instrument of persuasion ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Aristotelian scholasticism
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formal logic of the scholastics ⓘ |
| emphasizes |
historical study of language
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priority of rhetoric over dialectic ⓘ use of common speech ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
critique of abstract universals
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practical reasoning in ethics ⓘ relation between language and thought ⓘ |
| genre | polemical work ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | key text in the humanist attack on scholasticism ⓘ |
| influenced |
Renaissance theories of rhetoric
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later humanist logicians ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
dialectic
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ethics ⓘ humanism ⓘ philosophy ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ |
| method |
comparison of classical Latin usage with scholastic terminology
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philological analysis of philosophical vocabulary ⓘ |
| movement | Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposes |
separation of logic from rhetoric
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technical jargon of scholastic philosophy ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Latin ⓘ |
| period | Italian Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalStance |
anti-scholastic
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linguistic nominalism ⓘ |
| placesImportanceOn |
classical Latin authors
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ordinary linguistic usage ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
critique of scholastic logic
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critique of scholastic metaphysics ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor | Elegances of the Latin Language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleTranslation | Reploughing of Dialectic and Philosophy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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