« The Rise of Logical Skills and the 13th Century Origins of the Logical Man », in Logical Skills. Social-Historical Perspectives, ed. J. Brumberg-Chaumont and Cl. Rosental, Springer, 2021, p. 91-120. - Archive ouverte HAL Accéder directement au contenu
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« The Rise of Logical Skills and the 13th Century Origins of the Logical Man », in Logical Skills. Social-Historical Perspectives, ed. J. Brumberg-Chaumont and Cl. Rosental, Springer, 2021, p. 91-120.

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This paper is dedicated to the first universities and mendicant schools, where thousands of students began to converge during the thirteenth century. Logic played an unpreceded role in basic and higher education. A “Parisian logical model” of education was shaped at the University of Paris, adopted by mendicant Orders in their schools of logic (studia artium), diffused in all disciplines, and progressively spread in Southern Europe. Medieval education became heavily based upon logical, and even “logician” practices, with the “syllogization” of exegetical, disputational, and evaluation practices. The notion of logical skill conveniently captures this unique situation for the discipline of logic, as well as the way medieval thinkers conceived of logic as a universal, transdisciplinary method, a natural operation of the mind, a modality of knowledge (modus sciendi), the very form of teaching and graduating, a “habitus,” a technique (ars) and a science. The divisions of Aristotelian logic, the “artificial logic,” were for the first time naturalized and projected on the very structure of human mind, which was thereby “logicalized” and ascribed a “natural logic.” A strong anthropological dimension was bestowed on logic. The discipline of logic was deemed a necessary instrument in the philosophical “perfection” and the Christian “reparation” of man as an intellectual creature by a group of logically skilled, professional philosophers and theologians, whereas men deprived of logical education were described as “logically disabled,” and stuck into inferior forms of humanity. The world of medieval intellectual elites displayed a variety of social uses of logic, beyond academic circles, especially in the performance of pastoral duties. The possible historical records of the social usefulness of logic are explored: for students, the majority in medieval universities, who left university without a degree, but with a solid logical education, for ordinary mendicant friars, dedicated to preaching and confession, who frequented logical schools, and for members of the parish clergy sent to the faculties of arts.

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Julie Brumberg-Chaumont. « The Rise of Logical Skills and the 13th Century Origins of the Logical Man », in Logical Skills. Social-Historical Perspectives, ed. J. Brumberg-Chaumont and Cl. Rosental, Springer, 2021, p. 91-120.. Logical Skills. Social-Historical Perspectivesed, ed. J. Brumberg-Chaumont and Cl. Rosental, Springer, 2021, 2021. ⟨hal-03478054⟩
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