Philip Melanchthon: The Dialectical Questions : Erotemata Dialectices /

Philip Melanchthon: The Dialectical Questions : Erotemata Dialectices /

The Dialectical Questions offers an English translation of the Erotemata Dialectices , the final and fullest textbook on the art of argumentation written by the reformer and educational innovator Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). Representing an era when rhetoric and dialectic were seen as interdepend...

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Main Author: Fahnestock, Jeanne (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2021, ISBN: 9789004441040.
International Studies in the History of Rhetoric ; 15.

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Dialectic.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

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Call Number: BC71

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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Dialectic in Melanchthon's Context
  • 2 Melanchthon's Life-Long Dialectical Project
  • 3 Comparing Melanchthon's Textbooks on Dialectic, 1520-1555
  • 4 The Content of the Erotemata Dialectices: Expanding the Art
  • 5 The Audiences for the Erotemata Dialectices
  • 6 Applying the Art of Dialectic: The Examples
  • 7 Sixteenth-Century Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Medicine in the Erotemata Dialectices
  • 8 The Importance of the Erotemata Dialectices
  • Comments on the Translation
  • 1 Features of the Translation
  • Translation
  • Book I
  • Book II
  • Book III
  • Book IV
  • Works Cited
  • Index.