"This volume is an updated version of the manuscript already published in Italian, cf. F. Magnano, Il De topicis differentiis di Severino Boezio ..."--Page ix. Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-391) and indexes.
Contents:
Index contemporary authors. Conclusion -- The title of the De topicis differentiis -- The partition of the De topicis differentiis -- The sources -- Boethius's source for Themistius's tópos -- Aristotle's ... -- Theophrastus -- Themistius's tópos -- The tópos of Aristotle's Rhetoric -- Boethius's sources for Cicero's locus -- The loci of Cicero's De inventione -- The loci of Cicero's Topica -- The Aristotelian origin of the Ciceronian locus -- Boethius's reconciliation of the Aristotelian-Themistian tópos with the Ciceronian locus -- The place of the discipline of topica in the division of logic -- The literary success of the De topicis differentiis -- The first book of the De topicis differentiis -- The preliminary concepts for learning the discipline of topica -- The ratio disserendi : ars inveniendi et ars iudicandi -- The intentio operis -- The propositio o enuntiatio o proloquium -- The quality and quantity of the propositions -- The form of the propositions -- The propositio per se nota -- The quaestio and its species -- The thesis -- The hypothesis -- The material of the quaestio -- The form of the quaestio -- The conclusio -- The argumentum -- The definition of the argumentum -- The division of the argumentum -- The intentio ac utilitas topicorum -- The second book of the De topicis differentiis -- The division of Themistius's loci -- The didactic goal of the text -- The argumentatio -- The syllogismus -- The inductio -- The enthymema -- The exemplum -- Themistius's locus -- The maxima propositio -- The maximarum differentia propositionum -- The Themistii locorum divisio -- The loci qui in questione sunt positi et qui a terminorum substantia ducuntur -- The locus a definitione -- The locus a descriptione -- The locus a nominis interpretatione -- The loci qui in quaestione sunt positi et qui terminorum substantiam consequuntur -- The locus a toto -- The locus a partibus -- The locus a causis -- The locus ab effectibus -- The locus a corruptionibus -- The locus ab usibus -- The locus a communiter accidentibus -- The loci qui extrinsecus assumuntur -- The locus a rei iudicio -- The locus a similibus -- The locus ab eo quod magis est -- The locus ab eo quod minus est -- The locus a proportione -- The locus ab oppositis -- The locus a transumptione -- The loci medii vel mixti -- The locus a casu -- The locus a coniugatis -- The locus a divisione -- Themistius : diligentissimus scriptor Graecus -- The divisio locorum -- The third book of the De topicis differentiis -- The division of Cicero's loci -- Cicero's locus -- The divisio locorum -- The loci qui in ipso haerent de quo agitur -- The-locus a toto -- The locus a partibus -- The locus a notatione -- The loci ex his rebus quae quodammodo affectae sunt ad id de quo quaeritur -- The locus a coniugatis -- The locus a genere -- The locus a forma -- The locus a similibus -- The locus a differentia -- The locus a contrariis -- The locus ab adiunctis -- The locus ab antecedentibus, a consequentibus e a repugnantibus -- The locus ab efficientibus causis -- The locus ab effectis -- The locus a comparatione -- The loci qui extrinsecus assumuntur -- The locus a rei iudicio -- Distinctions among some loci of Cicero's division -- Themistius's and Cicero's divisions compared -- The fourth book of the De topicis differenths -- The rhetoric and the loci rhetorici -- The differences between dialectic and rhetoric -- The ars rhetorica -- The genus of rhetoric -- The species of rhetoric : the genera causarum -- The material of rhetoric : the civilis quaestio -- The partes of rhetoric -- The instrumentum of rhetoric and the partes instrumenti rhetoricae -- The opus of rhetoric -- The officium actoris -- The finis of rhetoric -- The partes causarum -- General summary -- The De inventione : the loci rhetorici -- The circumstantiae -- The loci continentia cum ipso negotio and in gestione negotii -- The loci adiuncta negotio -- The consecutio -- The communitates inter dialecticos et rhetoricos locos -- The diversitates inter dialecticos et rhetoricos locos -- Conclusions about the fourth book -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index ancient and modern authors -- Index contemporary authors.
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