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Dialectical Disputations, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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Dialectical Disputations, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Series: The I Tatti Renaissance Library
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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.
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