Texts in Context: The Queen of the Sciences
“What great advantages would philosophy give us over other men, if by studying it we could learn to govern our passions?” — Peter Abelard
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Rhetorica: Of the Same Clay
What is essential to argument is not that both sides prove everything they say, but only that they begin from premises both parties accept.
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Texts in Context: The Real Renaissance
If there is an era that truly deserves to be hailed as possessing a new energy of civilization-spanning rebirth, it is the beginning of the High Middle Ages.
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Rhetorica: The Discipline of Largesse
The fourth moral principle underlying rhetoric, and the first that demands a social context, is the rule of magnanimity; so what’s that?
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Texts in Context: The Great Estrangement
The Early Middle Ages faintly, but insistently, filed away at the integrity of Christendom; as they drew to a close, it gave way with a snap.
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Texts in Context: Islamic Civilization in the Early Middle Ages
What became of the Muslim invaders Charles Martel trounced? What were they up to in the 10th century? Nothing; just throwing a golden age.
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Dialectica: An Index of Logic (and Fallacies)
Not everyone gets a classical education, replete with grammar, logic, and rhetoric; but when pursuing wisdom, it is never too late to begin.
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The Brain, a User’s Manual: Conjunction Junction
The necessary-and-sufficient conditional and the disjunctive lie before us; and then … well, we can burn that bridge when we come to it.
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The Brain, a User’s Manual: Enough Necessity
Sufficiency and necessity are twins, but not identical twins—though their younger sibling does mysteriously resemble both.
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The Brain, a User’s Manual: Matters Syllogistical
Today, we conclude our review of Aristotelian logic and make ready to embark on Stoic logic, the last missing piece of the puzzle.
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