Metalogicon
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The Metalogicon is a treatise by John of Salisbury, written in 1159, devoted to education and particularly to the trivium. Based on the Organon and integrating the contribution of the rediscovery of Aristotle, the Metalogicon promotes the trivium, while evoking the main figures of the cultural world of his time, such as Abelard or Bernard of Chartres through the famous anecdote: "We are dwarfs on the shoulders of giants".
Modern editions
- The Metalogicon, A Twelfth-Century Defense of the Verbal and Logical Arts of the Trivium, trans. Daniel McGarry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1955)
- Metalogicon, translated by J.B. Hall, (Corpus Christianorum in Translation, CCT 12, Turnhout, Brepols, 2013)
