Between disputatio and Polemics: Dialectics as Production of Knowledge in the Middle Ages
Bénédicte Sère
At the basis of medieval production knowledge, dialectics seems to be one primary keys thought. Medieval thinkers were trained express and represent world according disputatio, which is a question research form academic exercise. They discuss challenge. We can distinguish two kinds dialectics: an irenic one, ritualized dialectics, as Habermas has shown on hand, more polemical theorized by Pierre Bourdieu, other. Our main aim establish that those dialectical techniques disputatio or treatises are tools produce doctrines On we analyze typical scholarly disputationes produced in commentaries Aristotleâs Ethics, within Western university sphere. other, focus political ecclesiological time Great Schism, case study understand difference between exchanges. The final thoughts this article at contextualizing self-awareness specialists scholasticism saturation polemics broadening their audience through reaching non-academic audience. example well-known theologian Jean Gerson particularly relevant attempt move beyond university.
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