Ars Topica The Classical Technique of Constructing Arguments from Aristotle to Cicero /

• Main Author: Rubinelli, Sara. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Argumentation Library, 15
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Philosophy, classical.; Logic.; Linguistics > Philosophy.; Philology.; Humanities.; Philosophy.; Classical Philosophy.; Classical Studies.; Philosophy of Language.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9549-8

Ars Topica is the first full-length study of the nature and development of topoi, the conceptual ancestors of modern argument schemes, between Aristotle and Cicero. Aristotle and Cicero configured topoi in a way that influenced the subsequent tradition. Their work on the topos-system grew out of an...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction: Topoi in their argumentative context; David S. Levene
• Part I The creation of the method of the method of topoi and its characteristics
• 1. Aristotle's Topics
• 2. Dialectical and rhetorical uses of topoi
• Part II Topoi and loci
• 3. Cicero's use of locus in De Inventione
• 4. Cicero's list of Aristotelian loci
• Summary
• References
• Index of Concepts
• Index of Quotations.