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A history of reasonableness : testimony and authority in the art of thinking /

A defense of the social operation of thinking, with an emphasis on testimony and authority. This book describes a lost tradition that can be called reasonableness. The tradition began with Aristotle, was recommended to Western education by Augustine, flourished in the schools of the Renaissance thro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kennedy, Rick, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2004.
Colección:Rochester studies in philosophy ; v. 7.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The classical tradition of testimony in topics
  • Three medieval traditions : Augustine, Boethius, and Cassiodoras
  • Two renaissance traditions : Ciceronian and Augustinian
  • The long influence of the port-royal logic
  • Appreciating Aristotle : Thomists, Scots, and Oxford noetics
  • Testimony becomes experience : the rise of critical thinking.