Abstract
Commonplaces hold the key to the relationship of dialectic and rhetoric, and they emerge into full prominence as Renaissance humanism begins to override the long dominance of scholastic methods and values. Whether understood in the etymological sense of common topics of argument or in the looser sense of excerpts and quotations collected in commonplace books, or the headings under which such excerpts are organized for retrieval, the loci communes forged a cultural bond among Renaissance humanists and provided a conduit of thought and speech from antiquity to modernity.
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MacPhail, E. (2022). Commonplace. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_1051
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