Dialectical Disputations, Volume 1: Book I (The I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Description: Dialectical Disputations, Volume 1: Book I (The I Tatti Renaissance Library) [Hardcover] Valla, Lorenzo; Copenhaver, Brian P. and Nauta, Lodi Product Overview Lorenzo Valla (1407–1457) ranks among the greatest scholars and thinkers of the Renaissance. He secured lasting fame for his brilliant critical skills, most famously in his exposure of the “Donation of Constantine,” the forged document upon which the papacy based claims to political power. Lesser known in the English-speaking world is Valla’s work in the philosophy of language―the basis of his reputation as the greatest philosopher of the humanist movement. Dialectical Disputations, translated here for the first time into any modern language, is his principal contribution to the philosophy of language and logic. With this savage attack on the scholastic tradition of Aristotelian logic, Valla aimed to supersede it with a new logic based on the actual historical usage of classical Latin and on a commonsense approach to semantics and argument. Valla provides a logic that could be used by lawyers, preachers, statesmen, and others who needed to succeed in public debate―one that was stylistically correct and rhetorically elegant, and thus could dispense with the technical language of the scholastics, a “tribe of Peripatetics, perverters of natural meanings.” Valla’s reformed dialectic became a milestone in the development of humanist logic and contains startling anticipations of modern theories of semantics and language. Volume 1 contains Book I, in which Valla refutes Aristotle’s logical works on the categories, transcendentals, and predicables, with excursions into natural and moral philosophy and theology. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press (August 13, 2012) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 448 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 6 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 66 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.23 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.1 x 8 inches Best Sellers Rank: #1,981,458 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,174 in Humanist Philosophy #3,724 in Modern Western Philosophy #30,855 in European History (Books) #1,174 in Humanist Philosophy Quality Products This will be shipped securely Returns must be within 30 days - item EXACTLY as it was sent. Must have tracking number. Email us with any issues/questions. Thanks for looking! Fast and Free Shipping Shipping is free for this item. We get your order shipped out and delivered to your doorstep as quickly as possible. Commitment We are committed to making sure that you leave this transaction satisfied. That means having access to real people that get your questions and concerns answered quickly. Give us a shot and we will make sure that you will look to us again!

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