Awards

• Nominated for Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize 2010
• Winner of Best Book on the History of Philosophy 2010

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Author:   Lodi Nauta
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   Harvard University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.748kg
ISBN:  

9780674032699

ISBN 10:   0674032691
Pages:   416
Publication Date:   31 March 2009
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction PART ONE: The Attack on Aristotelian-Scholastic Metaphysics 1 The Analysis of Things: Substance, Quality, and the Tree of Porphyry 2 Thing and Word: A Critique of Transcendental Terms 3 From a Grammatical Point of View: The Reduction of the Categories PART TWO: Soul, Nature, Morality, and God 4 Soul and Nature: A Critique of Aristotelian Psychology and Natural Philosophy 5 The Virtues and the Road to Heavenly Pleasure 6 Speaking about the Ineffable: The Trinity PART THREE: Toward a Humanist Dialectic 7 Dialectic I: Propositions, the Square of Contraries, Proof and Argument 8 Dialectic II: Forms of Argumentation Conclusion: Valla and Ordinary Language Philosophy List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography

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This is by far the best book in any language on Valla as a philosopher. It will immediately take its place on graduate reading lists and in courses on Renaissance humanism and philosophy, and bring Valla into the narrative of Western philosophical history as no book has previously succeeded in doing.--James Hankins Harvard University Tremendously impressive. This is a welcome development in scholarship on Valla. Nauta has written a book that will be consulted for a long time to come.--Christopher Celenza Johns Hopkins University

This is by far the best book in any language on Valla as a philosopher. It will immediately take its place on graduate reading lists and in courses on Renaissance humanism and philosophy, and bring Valla into the narrative of Western philosophical history as no book has previously succeeded in doing. -- James Hankins * Harvard University * Tremendously impressive. This is a welcome development in scholarship on Valla. Nauta has written a book that will be consulted for a long time to come. -- Christopher Celenza * Johns Hopkins University *

Tremendously impressive. This is a welcome development in scholarship on Valla. Nauta has written a book that will be consulted for a long time to come.--Christopher Celenza Johns Hopkins University

Author Information

Lodi Nauta is Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

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