The dialectical questions : Erotemata dialectices
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The dialectical questions : Erotemata dialectices
(International studies in the history of rhetoric, 15)
Brill, 2021
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Erotemata dialectices
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [497]-518) and index
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Description
The Dialectical Questions (Erotemata Dialectices) of Philip Melanchthon offers an English translation of one of the sixteenth-century's most influential textbooks on argumentation. The introduction sets the work in Melanchthon's life and times, reviews its content, and details its unique sample arguments drawn from medicine and natural philosophy.
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
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