Boethius's "De topicis differentiis"

by Boethius, Eleonore Stump (Translator)

Overview

In Ciceronis Topica and De topicis differentiis are Boethius's two treatises on Topics (loci). Together these two works present Boethius's theory of the art of discovering arguments, a theory that was highly influential in the history of medieval logic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801489334
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	05/28/2004
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She is the author of several books, including Dialectic and its Place in the Development of Medieval Logic and Aquinas. She is the coeditor of Aquinas's Moral Theory, also from Cornell.

Editorial Reviews

Students of Boethius and of medieval logic will... profit from Stump's work on this difficult treatise. Her translation, ... the first into English... and the interpretative essays, e.g., on dialectic and Aristotle's Topics, Peter of Spain, and the Porphyrian Tree, are useful and informative.

-- "Library Journal"

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