La crítica de Juan Luis Vives a los pseudo-dialécticos

Abstract

En este trabajo se estudia una faceta del humanismo de Juan Luis Vives: su crítica a Ia lógica nominalista. Para el filósofo español, Ia gramática y Ia retórica eran inseparables de Ia dialéctica. Posiblemente, Juan Luis Vives no entendió bien el sentido de Ia lógica nominalista; sin embargo, su contribución a Ia lógica humanista fue importante.

Juan Luis Vives: Humanistic Logic versus Nominalistc Logic. In this work we study an aspect of the Humanism of Juan Luis Vives: his critique to the Nominalistic Logic. According to the Spanish philosopher, Grammar and Rhetoric were not separable from Dialectic. Perhaps Juan Luis Vives did not understand very well the sense of the Nominalistic Logic. Nevertheles his contribution to the humanictic Logic was quite considerable.