
HoP 404 - Robert Goulding on Peter Ramus
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
The Importance of Mathematics in the Arts
Raymers thought that the arts in general could have been made more mathematical. In 1551, when he first is allowed to teach philosophy again, he's immediately attacked by some of his opponents. So they accuse him of not teaching the curriculum correctly. And it looks kind of fishy. He turns up at the college royal and says, I'm now the professor of philosophy and eloquence. And I will teach philosophy through literary texts. The Aristotenians freak out and say, well, he obviously can't be teaching the things he's supposed to teach. A few years later in 1557, when he's much more well established and he's actually been spent in the last couple
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