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