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

• Published in: Journal of the history of ideas Vol. 76; no. 3; pp. 325 - 345
• Main Author: Nauta, Lodi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States University of Pennsylvania Press 01.07.2015
• Subjects: Classical literature; Education reform; History of medicine and histology; History, 16th Century; Knowledge; Knowledge acquisition; Language; Language culture relationship; Language history; Latin literature; Linguistics; Logic; Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus); Metaphysics; Philosophers; Philosophy; Philosophy - history; Philosophy of language; Pointing; Rhetoric; Semantics; Spain; Thinking; Vives; Spain

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...