« ‘A flat dichotomist’ : Critique marlovienne de la méthode ramiste » by Laetitia Sansonetti

“…While Ramus’s avowed aim was to promote a form of universal logic built on method (meaning for him the “order” or “disposition” of ideas from the simple to the complex ones) and syllogistic division, “Ramus” became a label attached to both the man and his doctrine and standing for novelty and the refusal to submit to authority, be it the scholastic authority of Aristotle’s commentators or the religious authority of French Catholicism (a convert to Protestantism, he died during the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre). Ramus’s fame in England reached such height that he was turned into a stage character in Christopher Marlowe’s play relating the St. …”
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