In Defense of Common Sense - Lorenzo Valla''s Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Lodi Nauta is Professor of the History of Philosophy, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Zusammenfassung One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (1406–1457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanist’s attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism.

Product details

• Authors: Lodi Nauta, Nauta Lodi
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2009
• EAN: 9780674032699
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03269-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History; I Tatti Studies in Italian Ren; I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion, Medieval Western philosophy