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Debates and debating

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  • Personifications of law, medicine and theology argue over the superiority of their respective professions. Engraving by GWHWHNM, ca. 1720.
  • Christ curses the Pharisees. Etching by F.A. Ludy after J.F. Overbeck, 1843.
  • Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Wood engraving by H. Linton after T. Beech (?) after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • Two physicians in New England discussing the treatment of a patient with an injured leg who is lying on a wooden table. Engraving.
  • John baptises Christ in the Jordan. Engraving by P. Galle, 1564, after M. van Heemskerck.
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    Christ tells the apostles that to be as humble as a child makes one the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Etching by A. Pflugfelder after J.F. Overbeck, 1846.

    Overbeck, Johann Friedrich, 1789-1869. | Date: 1846 | Reference: 23562i
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    Polarity and analogy : two types of argumentation in early Greek thought / by G.E.R. Lloyd.

    Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- | Date: 1987, ©1966
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    The humanist-scholastic debate in the Renaissance & Reformation / Erika Rummel.

    Rummel, Erika, 1942- | Date: 1995
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    A male and female warrior dispute over a child lying prone underneath; representing rhetoric. Etching by C. Schut.

    Schut, Cornelis, 1597-1655. | Reference: 25795i
    Part of: Septem artes liberales
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    The five days debate at Cicero's house in Tusculum : Upon 1. Comforts against death. 2. Patience under pain. 3. The cure of discontent. 4. The government of the passions. 5. The chief end of Man. Between master and sophister.

    Cicero, Marcus Tullius | Date: 1683
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