Philosophy and the Language of the People
Nauta, Lodi (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands)
In this book Lodi Nauta offers the first comprehensive examination of a vital issue in the rivalry between Renaissance humanists and medieval philosophers which still has considerable resonance in modern academe: the advantages and disadvantages that accrue to philosophy from employing a special technical vocabulary to discuss philosophical problems. In the Middle Ages, philosophy had become a highly technical discipline, with its own vocabula...
