Quaestiones
In rhetorical theory, the quaestiones (Latin: "questions") are the points being debated. ''Quaestiones'' is also the title of numerous literary works, including in chronological order: *the ''Tusculanae Disputationes'' of Roman statesman Cicero, around 45 BC *the ''Quaestiones'' of Roman jurist Sextus Caecilius Africanus, around 160 *the ''Quaestiones disputatae de Veritate'', 1256-1259, see List of works by Thomas Aquinas *the ''Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae ''Quaestiones quaedam philosophicae'' (''Certain philosophical questions'') is the name given to a set of notes that Isaac Newton kept for himself during his earlier years in Cambridge. They concern questions in the natural philosophy of the day ...

List Of Works By Thomas Aquinas
The collected works of Thomas Aquinas are being edited in the ''Editio Leonina'' (established 1879). As of 2014, 39 out of a projected 50 volumes have been published. The works of Aquinas can be grouped into six categories as follows: #Works written in direct connection to his teaching #*Seven systematic disputations (''quaestiones disputatae''), on: #**''Truth''; #**''The union of the Incarnate Word''; #**''The soul''; #**''Spiritual creatures''; #**''Virtues''; #**''God’s power''; and #**''Evil''. #*Twelve quodlibetal disputations #Philosophical commentaries #*Eleven commentaries on Aristotle; #*Two expositions of works by Boethius; #*Two expositions of works by Proclus #Lesser tractates and disputations #*Five polemical works; #*Five expert opinions, or ''responsa''; #*Fifteen letters on theological, philosophical, or political subjects; #* Ninety-nine Homilies Upon the Epistles and Gospels for Forty-nine Sundays of the Year #*A collection of glosses from the Church Fathers ...
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Rhetorical
Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. Aristotle defines rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion" and since mastery of the art was necessary for victory in a case at law, for passage of proposals in the assembly, or for fame as a speaker in civic ceremonies, he calls it "a combination of the science of logic and of the ethical branch of politics". Rhetoric typically provides heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations, such as Aristotle's three persuasive audience appeals: logos, pathos, and ethos. The five canons of rhetoric or phases of developing a persuasive speech were first codified in classical Rome: invention, arrangement, style, m ...
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Tusculanae Disputationes
The ''Tusculanae Disputationes'' (also ''Tusculanae Quaestiones''; English: ''Tusculan Disputations'') is a series of five books written by Cicero, around 45 BC, attempting to popularise Greek philosophy in Ancient Rome, including Stoicism. It is so called as it was reportedly written at his villa in Tusculum. His daughter had recently died and in mourning Cicero devoted himself to philosophical studies. The ''Tusculan Disputations'' consist of five books, each on a particular theme: On the contempt of death; On pain; On grief; On emotional disturbances; and whether Virtue alone is sufficient for a happy life. Context In the year 45 BC, when Cicero was around 61 years of age, his daughter, Tullia, died following childbirth. Her loss afflicted Cicero to such a degree that he abandoned all public business and left the city retiring to Asterra, which was a country house that he had near Antium. There he devoted himself to philosophical studies, writing several works, including ''De fi ...
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Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC. His influence on the Latin language was immense. He wrote more than three-quarters of extant Latin literature that is known to have existed in his lifetime, and it has been said that subsequent prose was either a reaction against or a return to his style, not only in Latin but in European languages up to the 19th century. Cicero introduced into Latin the arguments of the chief schools of Hellenistic philosophy and created a Latin philosophical vocabulary ...
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Sextus Caecilius Africanus
Sextus Caecilius Africanus (died ca. 169/175) was an ancient Roman jurist and a pupil of Salvius Julianus. Only one quote ( Dig. 30,39 pr.) remains of his '' Epistulae'' of at least twenty books. Excerpts of his '' Quaestiones'', a collection of legal cases in no particular order in nine books, are also reproduced in the Digests. The ''Quaestiones'' are most likely intended for use in legal education. They also appear to be closely connected to Julianus' work, who is often cited in them; it is assumed that he decided the majority of these cases. Nonetheless, Caecilius at times also expresses his own opinion of Julianus, including critically (Dig. 19,2,33). Another Sextus Caecilius is suspected by some sources to be a distinct Roman jurist, not to be confused with Africanus."CAECILIUS"
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