Quaestiones Alani Textes
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. *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 ...

Rhetorical
Rhetoric is the art of persuasion. It is one of the three ancient arts of discourse (trivium) along with grammar and logic/dialectic. As an academic discipline within the humanities, rhetoric aims to study the techniques that speakers or writers use to inform, persuade, and motivate their audiences. Rhetoric also provides heuristics for understanding, discovering, and developing arguments for particular situations. Aristotle defined 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 called it "a combination of the science of logic and of the ethical branch of politics". Aristotle also identified 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 ...
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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 old, 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 fin ...
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Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, orator, writer 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. He is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists and the innovator of what became known as "Ciceronian rhetoric". Cicero was educated in Rome and in Greece. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC. He greatly influenced both ancient and modern reception of the Latin language. A substantial part of his work has survived, and he was admired by both ancient and modern authors alike. Cicero adapted the arguments of the chief schools of Hellenistic philosophy in Latin and coined a large portion of Latin philosophical vocabulary via ...
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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., Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'', p. 527 See also * Caecilia gens References * * Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The ''Dictionary of Gr ...
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Quaestiones Disputatae De Veritate
The ''Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate'' (, henceforth ''QDV'' and sometimes spelled ''de Ueritate'') by Thomas Aquinas is a collection of questions that are discussed in the disputation style of medieval scholasticism. It covers a variety of topics centering on the true, the good and man's search for them, but the questions range widely from the definition of truth to divine providence, conscience, the good and free decision. Authorship The work was originally written circa 1256–1259, during Aquinas's first period in Paris. It is one of the few of Aquinas's works for which the original dictation (for questions 2 to 22) still exists. This determination was made by A. Dondaine of the Leonine Commission in 1956, and is generally accepted by scholars. Following the form of a , the ''QDV'' comprises a series of articles, each one being a lecture by Aquinas followed by "disputation" in response from his students. The whole was gathered from a series of sessions over thr ...
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