Critical Thinking and Medieval Romance

Ciccone, Nancy (2025) Critical Thinking and Medieval Romance. Doctor Virtualis, 20 (1). pp. 89-107. ISSN 2035-7362

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[IT] Nell'Europa occidentale, il ragionamento pratico, il processo deliberativo sulle cose da fare, costituisce una modalità di pensiero critico a partire dal XII secolo. Le scuole cattedrali si affidano alla categoria della filosofia pratica per affrontare l'esercizio della prudentia. L'istruzione accademica, nota come accessus, si basa su questa categoria per affrontare la letteratura classica perché tratta il comportamento. Nel XIII secolo, gli sviluppi scolastici derivanti dalla traduzione dell'Etica Nicomachea di Aristotele introducono la logica sillogistica con il termine ratio practica. I dibattiti interni al romanzo cortese sono correlati agli sviluppi accademici. Modellando il pensiero critico sul comportamento etico, rappresentano il processo del ragionamento pratico. Trovandosi in conflitto, i parlanti nella finzione cercano di capire la cosa giusta da fare. Considerano circostanze e risultati. Per quanto fittizia, la rappresentazione del ragionamento pratico offre complicazioni esperienziali e la difficoltà di sostenere un'etica prescrittiva. In Western Europe, practical reasoning, the deliberative process about things to be done constitutes a mode of critical thinking from the twelfth century on. Cathedral schools rely on the category of practical philosophy to address the exercise of prudentia. Academic instructions, known as accessus, rely on this category to address classical literature because it treats behavior. In the thirteenth century, scholastic developments resulting from the translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics introduce syllogistic logic with the term ratio practica. The inner debates of courtly romance correlate with academic developments. Modeling critical thinking about ethical behavior, they represent the process of practical reasoning. Finding themselves in conflict, fictional speakers try to figure out the right thing to do. They consider circumstances and outcomes. However fictional, the representation of practical reasoning offers experiential complications and the difficulty of upholding prescriptive ethics. / [EN] In Western Europe, practical reasoning, the deliberative process about things to be done constitutes a mode of critical thinking from the twelfth century on. Cathedral schools rely on the category of practical philosophy to address the exercise of prudentia. Academic instructions, known as accessus, rely on this category to address classical literature because it treats behavior. In the thirteenth century, scholastic developments resulting from the translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics introduce syllogistic logic with the term ratio practica. The inner debates of courtly roance correlate with academic developments. Modeling critical thinking about ethical behavior, they represent the process of practical reasoning. Finding themselves in conflict, fictional speakers try to figure out the right thing to do. They consider circumstances and outcomes. However fictional, the representation of practical reasoning offers experiential complications and the difficulty of upholding prescriptive ethics.

Tipologia del documento:	Articolo in rivista
Parole chiave:	pensiero critico; ragionamento pratico; prudenza; romanzo cortese; dibattiti interiori; critical thinking; practical reasoning; prudence; courtly romance; inner debates
Soggetto:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D111 Medieval History B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Depositato il:	21 Ago 2026 21:50
Ultima modifica:	22 Ago 2026 14:27
URI:	https://www.rmoa.unina.it/id/eprint/8663

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