Rhetoric & Dialectic in the Time of GalileoThis book examines the teaching and practice of the twin arts of argumentation-rhetoric and dialectic-in the time of Galileo. Galileo was an ardent controversialist on behalf of his astronomical theories, yet many today are unacquainted with the kinds of argument that became a focal point in his famous trial. In this insightful work, Jean Dietz Moss and William A. Wallace combine their vast knowledge of rhetoric, history, and philosophy to explain the background of the dispute between science and religion. The authors present an engaging discussion of the prevailing modes of rhetorical and scientific arguments in Northern Italy during the Renaissance. They display primary texts on the arts of rhetoric and dialectic by authors whose thought was known to Galileo. Six sets of translations from the published works of two scholars, Ludovico Carbone and Antonio Riccobono, make up the major part of the book. The works examined are Carbone's Introduction to Logic, Table of Rhetoric of Cyprian Soarez, Art of Speaking, On Oratorical and Dialectical Invention, and The Divine Orator, and Riccobono's Aristotle's Art of Rhetoric. Never before have these works been available in English. Moss and |
Contents
Galileo and Argumentation3 | 3 |
Traditional Rhetoric and Dialectic | 12 |
Rhetoric and Dialectic Reappraised | 22 |
Introduction | 45 |
Translated Excerpts58 | 58 |
Topics of persons before and at birth92 | 92 |
Goods in life those granted by nature and acquired by education100 | 100 |
Goods or virtues given supernaturally by God | 104 |
its nature and causes | 182 |
its nature and causes | 184 |
their natures causes and effects | 186 |
Introduction and Preface | 191 |
its nature causes and effects | 194 |
its nature causes and effects | 196 |
its nature causes and effects | 202 |
its nature causes and effects | 205 |
Moral and cognitive virtues their nature and division | 113 |
Introduction | 115 |
Prudence its divisions and contraries116 | 116 |
Justice its divisions and contraries | 118 |
Courage its divisions and contraries | 124 |
Temperance its divisions and contraries | 127 |
Translation of Carbones Tables of Soarezs Rhetoric entire | 130 |
Other topics of persons taken from their kind of life their deeds and goods of body and fortune | 133 |
Topics from the true and their division | 141 |
Topics from the honorable good and their division | 147 |
Topics from useful and pleasurable goods and their division155 | 155 |
Topics from the common good and from possible and readily accessible evil | 162 |
The causes of human actions166 | 166 |
Human affections in general | 172 |
its nature causes and effects | 178 |
Those affected by anger and gentleness | 211 |
Shame and modesty | 215 |
Introduction Dedication and Argument | 219 |
Indignation envy and jealousy223 | 223 |
Characters of different ages228 | 228 |
Translation of Riccobonos Essays on Aristotles Rhetoric | 235 |
its nature those injuring and those injured | 237 |
Introduction Table of Contents and Preface | 301 |
Translation of Book One entire | 310 |
Translation of Excerpts from Books Three and Five | 350 |
Introduction Table of Contents Dedication and Preface | 379 |
Translation of Excerpts from Books One Two Four and Five | 394 |
Bibliography425 | 425 |
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