Peter Ramus Quotes on Knowledge
Peter Ramus (Pierre de la Ramée, 1515–1572), the French humanist whose Dialecticae Institutiones (1543) and the long sequence of subsequent textbooks gave the sixteenth-century European universities their principal alternative to the inherited Aristotelian logic, defended a programme of dialectical method organized around the systematic dichotomous division of every subject from its most general principle down to its most specific applications. The framework shaped the curricular form of philosophy in many of the Reformed European universities and supplied the explicit methodological framework on which the early Puritan New England educational system would be built. Ramus was killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of August 1572.
Quotes
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“Method is the soul of teaching.”
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“Whatever is true must be capable of being clearly displayed.”
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“The arts of language and reasoning are one art, divided only for instruction.”
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“Use, not authority, is the proper test of a doctrine.”
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Attributed to Peter Ramus:
“To know is to be able to teach.”
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“Peter James wrote as recently as 2012, ‘scientists and archaeologists are still learning how to apply the radiocarbon method properly.”
Peter James in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022) -
“Centuries of Darkness was particularly critical of modern Egyptologists. ‘Early Egyptologists were usually more tentative about their chronology, continually revising their opinions in the light of fresh evidence. Sadly the study of Egyptian chronology seems to have become so ossified that it cannot question its fundamental assumptions, accepted more for familiarity than for any basis in fact.”
Centuries of Darkness quoted in : Nick Collins - How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (2022)