International library of philosophy and scientific method
Includes bibliographical references.
Concerning justice -- The three aspects of justice -- The rule of justice -- The role of decision in the theory of knowledge -- The specific nature of juridical proof -- Self-evidence and proof -- Opinions and truth -- The new rhetoric -- Logic, language and communication -- The social contexts of argumentation -- The dialectical method and the part played by the interlocutor in dialogue -- Act and person in argument -- Pragmatic arguments.
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This book comprises a series of studies devoted to an analytic examination of reasoning in the field of conduct. The first is analysis of the idea of justice undertaken in a spirit of positivism; the series continues in a different vein necessitated by compelling obligation the author found himself under to work out a logic of value judgments. This logic is in fact the Rhetoric and Topics of antiquity: the author's "Traité de l'Argumentation (Paris, 1958) gave this new life, and the present work demonstrates its philosophical importance.