Petrus Ramus, French Logician and Humanist

Petrus Ramus (1515 - August 26, 1572) was a French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. A central issue to his anti-Aristotelianism arose out of a concern for pedagogy. He sought to infuse order and simplicity into philosophical and scholastic education by reinvigorating a sense of dialectic as the overriding logical and methodological basis for the various disciplines. The logic of Ramus enjoyed a great celebrity for a time, and there existed a school of Ramists. There is no ground for his claim to supersede Aristotle by an independent system of logic. A Protestant convert, he was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

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