Method
Disputation
Overview
Disputation is a genre of literature involving two contenders who seek to establish a resolution to a problem or establish the superiority of something. An example of the latter is in Sumerian disputation poems.
In the scholastic system of education of the Middle Ages, disputations (in Latin: disputationes, singular: disputatio) offered a formalized method of debate designed to uncover and establish truths in theology and in sciences. Fixed rules governed the process: they demanded dependence on traditional written authorities and the thorough understanding of each argument on each side.
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Philosophers who discussed Disputation
Related ideas
- Geneva
- Philosophy
- Nachmanides
- John Calvin
- Censorship
- Latin
- Leipzig
- The Name of the Rose
- Middle Ages
- Heresy
- Original sin
- Ancient Near East
- Protestantism
- Science
- Talmud
- Theology
- Friar
- Umberto Eco
- Reformation
- Scholasticism
- Heidelberg
- Pope Paul III
- Free will
- Regensburg
Place in the tradition
Part of Scholasticism.