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

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.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART I. Methodus 1.The Origins and the Development of the ‘Acroamatic-Exoteric’ Distinction in the Late RenaissancePART II. Theoria 2.The Historical Significance of the Ramist Critique of Metaphysics 3.Ernst Soner’s Commentary on the Metaphysics and the Scholastic TraditionPART III. Praxis 4.The Aristotelians and the New Science of Politics5.Franz Tidike’s Disputatio de fato and the Teaching of Moral Philosophy at the Torun Gymnasium at the Turn of the Seventeenth CenturyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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

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.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsPART I. Methodus 1.The Origins and the Development of the ‘Acroamatic-Exoteric’ Distinction in the Late RenaissancePART II. Theoria 2.The Historical Significance of the Ramist Critique of Metaphysics 3.Ernst Soner’s Commentary on the Metaphysics and the Scholastic TraditionPART III. Praxis 4.The Aristotelians and the New Science of Politics5.Franz Tidike’s Disputatio de fato and the Teaching of Moral Philosophy at the Torun Gymnasium at the Turn of the Seventeenth CenturyConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex