Ramism

Ong's negative judgment of Ramus 'mathematical capacities may be correct (Ong, p. 27); nevertheless, his enthusiasm for this field was crucial to the future history of Ramism.

Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

One key to understanding the impact of Ramism can be found in his own statement, in the Scholae dialecticae, that the aim of his reforms was to adapt Aristotle's Organon to the service of learning, ad eruditionis usum.

Petrus Ramus Sellberg, Erland 2006

The most extensive treatment of Ramus and Ramism is to be found in Walter J. Ong, Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue (Cambridge, Mass., 1958), which contains an exhaustive bibliography.

RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

Ramism was a mixture of scholasticism and humanism which spread in the sixteenth and seven - teenth centuries through northern Europe and the

RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

Close, if sometimes ambiguous, connections exist be - tween Ramism and the manual arts and crafts of the bourgeois world where Ramism had so much appeal.

RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

Because it placed a high premium on logic, regardless of what kind of expression was involved, Ramism dis - couraged ornateness of expression and encouraged a

RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

Ramism affected virtually all knowledge with the possible exception of medicine, which vigorously resisted Ramus 'anti-Aristotelianism.

RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

But Ramism did not share equally all humanist enthusiasms.

RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

Making a great deal of clarity and distinctness and of analysis of all sorts — the term “logical analysis” was recognized in the sixteenth century as a charac - teristically Ramist term — Ramism considered branches

RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968

The term “Ramism” is used to designate the intellec - tual trends, in part philosophical and in part pedagogi - cal, associated with the work of Pierre de la Ramée, better known as Petrus Ramus, or Peter Ramus

RAMISM WALTER JACKSON ONG 1968