Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements PART I. Methodus 1.The Origins and the Development of the ‘Acroamatic-Exoteric’ Distinction in the Late Renaissance PART II. Theoria 2.The Historical Significance of the Ramist Critique of Metaphysics 3.Ernst Soner’s Commentary on the Metaphysics and the Scholastic Tradition PART III. Praxis 4.The Aristotelians and the New Science of Politics 5.Franz Tidike’s Disputatio de fato and the Teaching of Moral Philosophy at the Torun Gymnasium at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Investigates the variety of ways in which Aristotelianism was understood and taught in European universities during the late Renaissance and Early Modern period.

About the Author

Danilo Facca is Associate Professor in the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.

Reviews

What this [book] brilliantly does is to rediscover the intricacies of past debates as well as the tension, the liveliness, and the acrimoniousness that characterised them, breaking the monotony of an all too often simplistic and trite opinion about Renaissance philosophy and early modern Schulphilosophie.
*Renaissance and Reformation in Poland*

Facca's erudite collection of case studies throws a fresh light on the very notion of a 'philosophy of the schools'. It demonstrates clearly how in the evolution of Aristotelianism in Central Europe, theoretical and didactic concerns were inextricably intertwined and provides new insights into the history of intellectual relations between Italy and Northern Europe. Recommended reading for everyone interested in the intellectual history of Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century.
*Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, HSE University, Moscow*

This volume skillfully and eruditely demonstrates how philological and philosophical readings of Aristotle’s writings altered the conceptions of metaphysics, ethics, and practical philosophy in the schools, universities, and gymnasia of central Europe.
*Craig Martin, Associate Professor, University of Venice, Italy*

Danilo Facca's book addresses the revolution in didactics from the 16th century onwards. Exploring metaphysics, politics, and ethics, Facca provides an excellent and vibrant description of the multiplicity of factors at stake in the movement’s spread, taking in the work of Ottaviano Ferrari, Philipp Scherb, Cornelius Martini and Franz Tidike. By reconstructing the work of these thinkers Early Modern Aristotelianism provides us with a new angle on late Renaissance philosophical Aristotelianism, currently underrepresented in the scholarship of the period.
*Marian A. Wesoly*