The Order of Knowing: Juan Luis Vives on Language, Thought, and the Topics

This article seeks to locate Vives’s work in the tradition of humanist thought that criticized the linguistic and philosophical abstraction of the scholastics. After discussing Vives’s views on language and knowledge as functions of man’s biological nature, the article argues that for Vives the topi...

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Published inJournal of the history of ideas Vol. 76; no. 3; pp. 325 - 345
Main Author Nauta, Lodi
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Abstract This article seeks to locate Vives’s work in the tradition of humanist thought that criticized the linguistic and philosophical abstraction of the scholastics. After discussing Vives’s views on language and knowledge as functions of man’s biological nature, the article argues that for Vives the topics, as seats of argumentation, are a reflection of the ontological order and as such an instrument and heuristic aid for the human mind. They form a grid through which knowledge can be acquired and arguments be formulated. The topics bridge the world of (unknown) essences and man’s epistemic categories.
AbstractList For some he is ''one of the most original philosophers of language'' of the Renaissance, who even comes close to anticipating modern logical achievements such as Bertrand Russell's type theory or John Lyons's semantics.2 For others he is a timid, half-hearted follower of Lorenzo Valla (ca. 1406-57), whose views on language and knowledge were congenial to Vives, yet apparently too radical for him to endorse.3 Other scholars also agree that Vives was not very innovative in dialectics but nevertheless think that his work embodies ''an original, unified and distinctively sixteenth-century account of the art of thinking and composition, articulated in a set of related moves,'' pointing especially to Vives's original observations on rhetorical themes such as style, decorum, emotional manipulation, and forms of writing.4 And while historians of logic and medieval philosophy are generally negative about the contributions to dialectic by humanists such as Vives, who has thrown out ''the good with the bad,''5 historians of Renaissance humanism, on the other hand, have praised him for what they see as a radical break with Scholasticism, and his insistence on the historical embeddedness of language and human culture.6 It is not surprising that scholars have interpreted Vives's position in different ways.
This article seeks to locate Vives’s work in the tradition of humanist thought that criticized the linguistic and philosophical abstraction of the scholastics. After discussing Vives’s views on language and knowledge as functions of man’s biological nature, the article argues that for Vives the topics, as seats of argumentation, are a reflection of the ontological order and as such an instrument and heuristic aid for the human mind. They form a grid through which knowledge can be acquired and arguments be formulated. The topics bridge the world of (unknown) essences and man’s epistemic categories.
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Language culture relationship
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Latin literature
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Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)
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Philosophy of language
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