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Renaissance Truths Humanism, Scholasticism and the Search for the Perfect Language
By Alan R. Perreiah
Copyright 2014
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Though they have long been portrayed as arch rivals, Alan Perreiah here argues that humanists and scholastics were in fact working in complementary ways toward some of the same goals. After locating the two traditions within the early modern search for the perfect language, this study re-defines the lines of disagreement between them. For humanists the perfect language was a revived Classical... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Search for the Perfect Language; Chapter 2 Valla on Thought and Language; Chapter 3 Valla on Truth; Chapter 4 Vives on Thought and Language; Chapter 5 Vives on Truth; Chapter 6 Paul of Venice on Truth; Chapter 101 Concluding Reflections;
Biography
Alan Perreiah is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky, USA.
'Renaissance Truths is an important and inspiring book not only for philosophers and historians of ideas specializing in early modernity, but also for theoreticians of language and, generally, for anybody with a genuine-professional or personal-concern in the function and development of language and languages.' Renaissance Quarterly
