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

• Main Author: Rubinelli, Sara (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: Argumentation Library, 15
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philology.; Philosophy, Ancient.; Logic.; Language and languages > Philosophy.; Classical Philosophy.; Classical Studies.; Philosophy of Language.

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:

• The Creation of the Method of Topoi and Its Characteristics
• Aristotle’s Topics
• Dialectical and Rhetorical Uses of Topoi
• Topoi and Loci
• Cicero’s Use of Locus in De Inventione
• Cicero’s List of Aristotelian Loci.