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Subject(s)

• Logic—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Logic, Medieval [Browse]
• Education—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Education, Medieval [Browse]
• Aristotle—Influence [Browse]
• Aristotle—Organon [Browse]
• John of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres -1180—Metalogicon [Browse]

Translator

• Hall, John Barrie [Browse]

Related name

• Haseldine, Julian [Browse]

Series

• Corpus Christianorum in translation ; 12. [More in this series]
• Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis ; 98. [More in this series]
• Corpus Christianorum in translation ; 12 [More in this series]
• Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis ; 98 [More in this series]

Summary note

"John of Salisbury has long been celebrated as one of the foremost humanists of the twelfth-century renaissance, an erudite correspondent, legal expert, historian, poet, diplomat and political thinker, and clerk to two successive archbishops of Canterbury, Theobald and Thomas Becket. His 'Metalogicon', ostensibly a defence of the role of logic and of Aristotle's 'Organon' in the educational syllabus of the day, makes a powerful argument for an educational system of real practical utility for society, one whose intellectual coherence and rigour should underpin political morality and rational governance. As such, it has been seen to stand alongside the more famous 'Policraticus' as an integral part of the intellectual contribution of one of Europe's great political theorists. Based on John's own experiences as a student and a teacher, the treatise offers unique evidence of the educational system of twelfth-century Paris at a critical stage in the early development of the schools, and of the earliest reception of the Aristotelian texts of the 'new logic'."--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 92-106) and indexes.

Language note

An English translation of the Latin text found in volume 98 of the series Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis.

Contents

• Machine generated contents note: Introduction
• 1. John of Salisbury
• i. Early life and education
• ii. In the service of Archbishop Theobald of Canterbury
• iii. The Becket years
• iv. Bishop of Chartres
• 2. Debates on the chronology of John of Salisbury's early life
• i. John's student years and Metalogicon ii.10
• ii. Between Paris and Canterbury, 1147-53
• 3. Works
• 4. Introduction to the text
• i. The Trivium
• ii. The Organon
• iii. Synopsis of the Metalogicon
• Book One
• Book Two
• Book Three
• Book Four
• 5. The Metalogicon and modern scholarship
• i. The Metalogicon and the history of thought
• ii. The Metalogicon and the history of education
• Bibliography
• 1. Abbreviations
• 2.Select bibliography
• i. Editions of John of Salisbury's works
• ii. Bibliographies on John of Salisbury, in order of publication
• iii. Select secondary literature with particular attention to the Metalogicon
• Translator's Note
• METALOGICON
• The Chapter headings of the books
• Prologue
• 1. The Calumny which wrenched from him a reply to his Cornificius
• 2. A description of his person with the name suppressed
• 3. When how and by whom he was educated
• 4. What became of his partners in error
• 5. The greatness of the men whom that household dares to disparage and why
• 6. On what intellectual bases he reposes
• 7. In praise of eloquence
• 8. That nature must be helped by experience and by practice
• 9. That the man who assails logic endeavours to rob men of their tongues
• 10. The signification of the word logic and that all arts except evil ones are to be cultivated
• 11. What art is and concerning types of intelligence and that they are to be cultivated by the arts
• ^ 12. Why the arts are called liberal
• 13. Why grammar is so called
• Note continued: 14. That although it [grammar] is not natural it imitates nature
• 15. That adjectives of secondary application are not appropriately conjoined with substantives of primary application as for instance patronymic horse
• 16. That adjectives of primary application are joined to substantives of secondary application
• 17. That in poetry also grammar imitates nature
• 18. What grammar teaches us to pursue and what to shun
• 19. That a knowledge of figures is exceedingly useful
• 20. In what matters the grammarian ought to be occupied
• 21. Of the great men who have found pleasure in grammar and that one can no more engage in philosophy without grammar than if one were deaf or mute
• 22. That he [Cornificius] defends his error by the authority of Seneca
• 23. The prerequisites for the exercise of philosophy and virtue and that grammar is the foundation of them
• 24. Concerning the practice of reading and lecturing and the customary manner of Bernard of Chartres and his followers
• 25. A Short epilogue in praise of grammar
• 1. That logic is beneficial to the whole of philosophy because it pursues the truth
• 2. Of the Peripatetic school the birth of logic and its originators
• 3. That logic is to be studied first by philosophers and concerning the difference between demonstrative dialectical and sophistic reasoning
• 4. What dialectic is and why it is called dialectic
• 5. Of the subdivisions of dialectic and the goal of logicians
• 6. That all men seek logic but not all attain to it
• 7. That the jugglers of windy words must be untaught so as to know
• 8. That Aristotle would have checked them had they listened to him
• 9. That dialectic is ineffective if it is deprived of the support of other disciplines
• 10. On whose authority the preceding and the following observations are based
• Note continued: 11. What dialectic is capable of on its own
• 12. In what things its exercise consists and what it uses as its instrument
• 13. How great the value is of the knowledge of probables and that things simply necessary do not easily become known
• 14. More of the same
• 15. What a dialectical proposition is and what a dialectical problem
• 16. That all other professors of this art yield pride of place to Aristotle
• 17. How badly it is taught and what opinions have been held by the moderns about genera and species
• 18. That later generations always change the opinions of earlier
• 19. In what respect teachers of this kind deserve no indulgence
• 20. The view of Aristotle concerning genera and species fortified by many arguments and by the testimony of many writings
• 1. How Porphyry and other books should be read
• 2. Concerning the utility of the Categoriae and the tools they furnish
• 3. What the conception is of predicaments and what the sober philosopher is contented with
• 4. What the conception is and the utility of the Periermeniarum (more correctly Periermenias)
• 5. In what the body of the art consists and concerning the utility of the Topica
• 6. Concerning the utility and the conception of the three books comprising the Topica
• 7. A short analysis of the fourth and fifth books
• 8. Concerning the heading of definition which is dealt with in the sixth book
• 9. Concerning the problem of the same and the different which is discussed in the seventh book and certain features common to the Topica
• 10. Concerning the utility of the eighth book
• 1. That the Analytica weighs types of argument
• 2. That this knowledge is universally useful and how it got this name
• 3. That the book is not so useful for developing verbal fluency
• 4. What the conception of the first book is
• Note continued: 5. What the conception of the second book is
• 6. Concerning the difficulty of the Analytica posteriora and the reasons for it
• 7. Why Aristotle pre-eminently has earned the name of the philosopher
• 8. Of the function of demonstration what demonstration consists of and how and that sensation is the beginning of knowledge and how
• 9. What sensation is and how every type of philosophy derives strength from it by means of imagination
• 10. Concerning imagination and that it is from imagination that affections arise by which the soul is composed or disturbed and befouled
• 11. What imagination is and concerning opinion fallacy of opinion and sensation and the origin of fronesis which we call prudence
• 12. What prudence is what its matter what its parts and how knowledge comes from sensation
• 13. Concerning the difference between knowledge and wisdom what faith is
• 14. Concerning the relationship betweenfronesis and alitia and concerning the origin of fronesis and what reason is
• 15. Likewise what reason is and that the word reason is manifold and that reasons are everlasting
• 16. The distinction of multiplicity and that brute beasts do not possess reason although they seem to distinguish and how it comes about that man has been allotted reason according to the Hebrews
• 17. Concerning the function of reason and why the senses over which reason presides are in the head and what attendants Philology has
• 18. Concerning the difference between reason and understanding and what understanding is
• 19. What wisdom is and that it derives from sensation by means of grace
• 20. Concerning the cognitive faculty of soul its simplicity and its immortality according to Cicero
• 21. That in the preceding matter Aristotle has provided a seed-plot though not an adequate one for hypotheticals
• 22. Concerning sophistry and its utility
• 23. Concerning the Sophistici Elenchi
• Note continued: 24. Concerning those who carp at Aristotle's works
• 25. That Cornificius is cheaper than the gods' clown Bromius and what Augustine and other philosophers have said in praise of logic
• 26. What policy is to be followed against him and against wilful pettifoggers
• 27. That Aristotle went astray in many matters but is eminent in logic
• 28. How logic is to be used
• 29. That the rashness of youth is to be curbed and why Mercury is married to Philology and what objects are especially to be sought after
• 30. That Philology has precedence over the other two and what form of examination of predicaments is to be followed in the discussion of reason and truth
• 31. What original reason is and concerning the various schools of philosophers
• 32. What is contrary to reason and that reason has many meanings and that reasons are eternal
• 33. That man does not have perfect reason and that what is true is expressed in manifold ways
• 34. How what is true receives its name what truth is and what is contrary to it
• 35. Likewise concerning truths and that we speak in one way of things existing in another of words in another again of truths and how
• 36. The difference between those things which truly are and those which seem to be according to the Platonists
• 37. That a thing is called true or false in one way in another an opinion another a locution and why locutions of this kind are called modal
• 38. Concerning the coherence of reason and truth and briefly what each is
• 39. Likewise concerning the same and that neither reason nor truth admits of contraries
• 40. The aim of the Peripatetics and all genuine philosophers and concerning the eight obstacles to understanding
• 41.
• 42. That visible proofs show that the world is subject to vanity and what the reason was for ending the book here
• Indexes
• Index of Scriptural References
• Note continued: Index of non-Biblical Sources
• Index of Names
• Index of Greek Words.

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• 9782503533988 ((paperback))
• 2503533981 ((paperback))

OCLC

844236348

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