The Influence of Petrus Ramus

Studies in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Philosophy and Sciences
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-3-7965-1560-6
Verlag: Schwabe Verlag Basel

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band I, 285 Seiten, Format (B × H): 2250 mm x 1550 mm, Gewicht: 552 g

Reihe: Schwabe Philosophica

The volume originated in a workshop, held in the Bibelsaal of the Herzog August Library of Wolfenbüttel and devoted to an examination of the influence of Petrus Ramus. The papers, revised for publication, deal with the diverse use made of Ramus both by followers and adversaries in the religious and scholarly controversies that raged throughout (mainly) Protestant Europe during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In terms of organization the volume is divided along regional and thematic issues. The impact of Ramist ideas on Calvinism informs a first group of papers concentrating on various Reformed territories: Switzerland (Wolfgang Rother), the Netherlands (Theo Verbeek), Bremen and Gdansk (Thomas Elsmann). A second group examines Lutheran responses to Ramus: Joseph Freedman analyzes Melanchthons view, Riccardo Pozzo evaluates the criticism by the Helmstedt Aristotelians, and Erland Sellberg scrutinizes Ramus reception at the Swedish universities. Two further contributions probe the Ramist debate in the British Isles: in England (Mordechai Feingold) and in Ireland (Elizabethanne Boran). The section devoted to thematic issues places Ramus within Renaissance disciplines where his impact was most keenly felt: logic and literature (Kees Meerhoff), historiography and jurisprudence (Guido Oldrini), law and medicine (Ian Maclean), and astronomy (Nicholas Jardine and Alain Segonds). 
Content:
Wolfgang Rother, Ramus and Ramism in Switzerland
Theo Verbeek, Notes on Ramism in the Netherlands
Thomas Elsmann, The Influence of Ramism on the Academies of Bremen and Danzig: A Comparison
Joseph S. Freedman, Melanchthons Opinion of Ramus and the Utilization of Their Writings in Central Europe
Riccardo Pozzo, Ramus Metaphysics and its Criticism by the Helmstedt Aristotelians
Erland Sellberg, The Usefulness of Ramism
Mordechai Feingold, English Ramism: A Reinterpretation
Elizabethanne Boran, Ramism in Trinity College, Dublin in the Early Seventeenth Century
Kees Meerhoff, Beauty and the Beast: Nature, Logic and Literature in Ramus
Guido Oldrini, The Influence of Ramus Method on Historiography and Jurisprudence
Ian Maclean, Logical Division and Visual Dichotomies: Ramus in the Context of Legal and Medical Writing
Nicholas Jardine and Alain Segonds, A Challenge to the Reader: Ramus on Astrologia without Hypotheses

Zielgruppe

The volume originated in a workshop, held in the Bibelsaal of the Herzog August Library of Wolfenbüttel and devoted to an examination of the influence of Petrus Ramus. The papers, revised for publication, deal with the diverse use made of Ramus both by followers and adversaries in the religious and scholarly controversies that raged throughout (mainly) Protestant Europe during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. In terms of organization the volume is divided along regional and thematic issues. The impact of Ramist ideas on Calvinism informs a first group of papers concentrating on various Reformed territories: Switzerland (Wolfgang Rother), the Netherlands (Theo Verbeek), Bremen and Gdansk (Thomas Elsmann). A second group examines Lutheran responses to Ramus: Joseph Freedman analyzes Melanchthons view, Riccardo Pozzo evaluates the criticism by the Helmstedt Aristotelians, and Erland Sellberg scrutinizes Ramus reception at the Swedish universities. Two further contributions probe the Ramist d

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feingold, Mordechai

Freedman, Joseph S

Rother, Wolfgang

Freedman, Joseph S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Theologenbiographien, Religiöse Führer

Über Autor(innen)

The editors: Prof. Joseph S. Freedman, born in 1946, is Associate Professor at Alabama State University. Prof. Mordechai Feingold is Professor of History at California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Prof. Wolfgang Rother is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Zürich.