Author: Lévy, Carlos
Title: Ratiocinatio and inductio in the De inuentione
Review/Collection: «Ciceroniana On Line» VIII, 2, 2024
Editor: Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron & Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
Year edition: 2024
Pages: 643-658
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: This article explores a concept that has been afforded little attention by students of Latin rhetoric, despite occupying a central role in the Ciceronian corpus and in Latin prose more generally: ratiocinatio. The term is deployed inconsistently in Cicero's extant works, often absent where one might expect to find it. Notably, it is missing from the Lucullus and Academici Libri, Cicero's treatment of the theory of knowledge. This study proposes that the pairing ratiocinatio/inductio, bridging rhetoric and philosophy, betrays traces of the teachings of Phil(i)o of Larissa, Cicero's Academic teacher about whose influence little is known outside of the tribute Cicero pays him in his Brutus (46 BCE) [Author].
Works:
Link: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/11651/9560
Author initials: Lévy 2024
Title: Ratiocinatio and inductio in the De inuentione
Review/Collection: «Ciceroniana On Line» VIII, 2, 2024
Editor: Société internationale des Amis de Cicéron & Centro di Studi Ciceroniani
Year edition: 2024
Pages: 643-658
Keywords: Philosophie - Filosofia - Philosophy, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics, Sources - Fonti - Sources
Description: This article explores a concept that has been afforded little attention by students of Latin rhetoric, despite occupying a central role in the Ciceronian corpus and in Latin prose more generally: ratiocinatio. The term is deployed inconsistently in Cicero's extant works, often absent where one might expect to find it. Notably, it is missing from the Lucullus and Academici Libri, Cicero's treatment of the theory of knowledge. This study proposes that the pairing ratiocinatio/inductio, bridging rhetoric and philosophy, betrays traces of the teachings of Phil(i)o of Larissa, Cicero's Academic teacher about whose influence little is known outside of the tribute Cicero pays him in his Brutus (46 BCE) [Author].
Works:
Link: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/COL/article/view/11651/9560
Author initials: Lévy 2024
