The purpose of this book is to draw from the shadows a major figure in the history of the French and European Renaissance, Peter (Petrus) Ramus, who in his own time was the figurehead of a fierce resistance that would later be called the "Moderns"-innovative philosophers in line with the nominalism of the purely empirical "particulars" of William of Ockham-Against the academic and cultural influence of the "Ancients," supporters of Aristotle and the reality of the "universals" ordering both t.
The purpose of this book is to draw from the shadows a major figure in the history of the French and European Renaissance, Peter (Petrus) Ramus, who in his own time was the figurehead of a fierce resistance that would later be called the "Moderns"-innovative philosophers in line with the nominalism of the purely empirical "particulars" of William of Ockham-Against the academic and cultural influence of the "Ancients," supporters of Aristotle and the reality of the "universals" ordering both t