Traditional Logic Book II: Advanced Formal Logic (Classical Trivium Core Series)

Traditional Logic II by Martin Cothran is a continuation of Memoria Press Traditional Logic I. It covers the four figures of the traditional syllogism the three forms of rhetorical arguments (called enthymemes) the three kinds of hypothetical syllogisms the four kinds of complex syllogisms as well as relational arguments. The book also includes a wealth of examples of arguments from the Bible Lewis Carroll Isaac Watts St. Augustine and Tertullian as well as extended case studies of famous arguments throughout history such as Rene Descartes famous enthymeme: I think therefore I am; C.S. Lewis disjunctive syllogism proving the deity of Christ; Platos hypothetical argument concerning the power of love; Christs conjunctive syllogism: You cannot serve both God and mammon; David Humes famous dilemma stating the problem of evil; the stoic Senecas justification of the virtuous life; and St. Thomas Aquinas cosmological argument for the existence of God.