...George Huppert Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 PETER RAMUS THE HUMANIST AS PHILOSOPHE BJ GEORGEHUPPERT In Paris, yesterday, I was standing at the top of the steep hill known as the mountain...

... as the tradi- tion was got from Latin into English (as by Thomas Wilson and Ralph Lever), and as it was modified by the disciples of Ramus and later by the emerging scientists. In rhetoric he discriminates three modes : the full classical (here called Ciceronian) doctrine, as in Cox and Wilson...

... shows the fallacy of making Peter Ramus into the creator of the humanities by uncoupling humanism from moral philosophy. What emerged from the school of Ramus was a new kind of ivtellectual, a “philosophe,” emancipated from the narrowly ideological training of the universities and devoted...

... distilled in a single burlesque). The exaltation of Bacon over Ramus and Newton over Descartes was not something that just happened, Simpson argues with full attention to the intricacy of the problem. All four writers built systematically on what counted for them as evidence; yet they were...

..., as promoted by Rudolph Agricola (touted by Eras- mus) and later brought to fruition by Peter Ramus. But to think that Ramus’s endlessly bifurcating “dichotomies” have anything to do with piety or morality surely would be the oddest theory of all.5 For humanist citations of Cicero’s De...

... education. Miss Levy points out that they had been trained in scholastic dialectic as modified by Ramus with his emphasis on dichotomies, his analytical methods, and his utilitarian criteria. And though much of their reasoning may strike the non-Puritan as circular, they laid great stress...

... the thor- oughly delimited systems of Newtonian physics. Of all ages, this was one of those most preoccupied with schemes either to lay out plans for all human knowledge (Francis Bacon), or to compass all possible human knowledge in one methodology (Ramus, Descartes, Hobbes) , or even in one...

... on conversion, but they were, on the whole, men who had enjoyed a good education and who valued education. Miss Levy points out that they had been trained in scholastic dialectic as modified by Ramus with his emphasis on dichotomies, his analytical methods, and his utilitarian criteria...

...: Nelson, Norman E. Peter Ramus and the Confusion of Logic, Rhetoric, and Poetry. Pp. 22. $0.50. No. 3: Litzenberg, Karl. The Victorians and the Vikings : A Bibliographical Essay on Anglo-Norse Literary Relations. Pp. 27. $0.50. No. 4: Rowe, Kenneth Thorpe. Romantic Love and Parental Authority...

...’ Pazzi a Latin edition of the Poetics. In the same year, however, Petrus Ramus “gained his Master’s degree at the University of Paris by defend- ing victoriously the thesis that Aristotle’s doctrines without exception are all false. The year 1536 may therefore be regarded as a turning point...

... to the strict dichotomies of Peter Ramus (pp. 34-35). After this interesting background Vickers provides a rather short demonstra- tion of the orderly structure of the Advancement of Learning and a few of the Essays. In Chapter 3, “The Aphorism,” background material is used merely to free...

... well reveal the influence of Comenius, Riggs goes to great lengths to distance Milton from Comenius and even from Peter Ramus, whose work on method Milton seems to have imbibed.15 Yet noting that Milton inverted the Ramist progression from the general to the particular, favoring instead...

...: Croll’s essays on prose style, Lewis on allegory, Yates on hermetic tradi- tions, Ong on Ramus, and Weinberg on Italian criticism. These critics 424 KEN A1 SSANCE L,I I’EK AKY H IS‘I’OKY (with the exception of Lewis in another book) did not write stand- ard histories...

...” : Miss Rosemond Tuve’s convincing argument for the conceptual use of imagery further strengthens the case for didactic poetry. See “Imagery and Logic : Ramus and Metaphysical Poetics,” JHI, I11 (October, 1942), 384. 62 Iohnson as Poet those of the virtuous man...

... and concern in contemporary philo- sophical problems, such as the methods of consolation, the limits of knowledge, and the wisdom of folly. True, one misses a sign of awareness of certain significant developments of his time, such as the criticism of Aristotelian logic by Ramus and Bacon’s attempt...

... survey. The principal historical failure in the argument is Adolph’s apparent un- awareness of the complex logical implications of the term “methocl” in relation to Nacon. There is but a passing reference to Ramus in the entire book (p. 163), and John Wilkins’ “fantastic schematizations” (p. 193...

... of the state of the Commonwealth and Keligion of Fraunce” (which he mistakenly thought were by Ramus) in the tradition of the church fathers who have de- scribed “the State of Christes Churche and of the commonwealth of the Lordes Israell,” naming Luke at the beginning andJohn Foxe at the end...

... meta- morphic writing,” whereas “Lucan shifts narration away from slighting insouciance to [a] defiling disfigurement” that indicts the effects of imperial oppression (“Lucan/ The Word at War,” in The Imperial Muse: Ramus Essays on Roman Literature of the Empire, ed. A. J. Boyle [Berwick: Aureal...

... that, in Walter Ong’s thesis, initially thrived with the spread of print- ing,10 to historicizing representations of knowledge, culminating in works such as Johann Jakob Brucker’s monumental Historia critica 10 Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art...

... works that investigate the impact of Ramist rhetoric upon poetry, Rosemond Tuve, Eliza- bethan and Metaphysical Imagery (1947), and Father Walter J. Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue (1958). A quotation from the latter will suggest the very special claims made upon our under...