De la lógica académica a la lógica civil: una proposición

Abstract

During the second half of 20th century, several movements, inside so much disciplinary areas (philosophy, Law) as interdisciplinary ones (discourse analysis, communication, etc.) have determined the rise and development of the studies on argumentation. Today this field of study presents itself as a new trivium of logic, dialectic and rhetoric, with new analytical possibilities in line for a subtle logic of the discursive pragmatics, and with encouraging challenges of theoretical settlement and of critical justification. It is, in any case, the logic that should be known for the cultured people and, especially, for all the students of philosophy. So I propose to implant in the philosophy curriculum this informal logic or «theory» of argumentation, not only due to the implication of the philosophizing in the practice of argumentation, and in order to integrate the studies of Logic and logical analysis in this philosophical frame, but also for a desirable projection of the theory of argumentation in the line of a civil logic, concerned with the shape and improvement of the public discourse -not so novel projection if there is remembered a tradition of our informal logic in Spain been interested in the uses of reason «so much as for the sciences, as for the practical affairs»- (P. Simón Abril, 1587).