Draft:In utramque partem
In utramque partem is the rhetoric practice of arguing both sides of the same debate. It was taught in rhetoric as part of the humanist education in the XVI and XVII centuries and it has it's origins in Cicero and skepticism.[1]
Both Hugo Grotius and René Descartes were very preocupied with overturning the validity of in ultraque partem. Descartes in the Dedicatory letter to the Sorbonne compares geometry to philosophy and says that in philosophy "there is nothing about which is cannot be argued either way" (in ultramque partem). For this reason a mathematical method should be used instead.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Araujo, Marcelo de. Scepticism, Freedom and Autonomy: A Study of the Moral Foundations of Descartes' Theory of Knowledge. Germany, De Gruyter, 2012.Pg 41
- ^ de Araujo, Marcelo. "Hugo Grotius, Moral Skepticism and the use of arguments in ultraque partem" Veritas 56.3 (2011).