Download or read book Humanism in an Age of Science written by Dirk Van Miert and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1632, the Amsterdam regents founded an Athenaeum or 'Illustrious School'. This kind of institution provided academic teaching, although it could not grant degrees and had no compulsory four-faculty system. Athenaeums proliferated in the first century after the Dutch Revolt, but few of them survived long. They have been interpreted as the manifestation of an evolving vision of the role of a higher education; this book, by contrast, argues that education at the Amsterdam Athenaeum was staunchly traditional both in methods and in substance. While religious, philosophical and scientific disputes rocked contemporary Dutch learned society, this analysis of letters, orations and disputations reveals that a traditional and Aristotelian humanism thrived at the Athenaeum until well into the seventeenth century.

Download or read book Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Dutch Philosophers written by Wiep van Bunge and published by Thoemmes. This book was released on 2003 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a consequence of the unique position of the Netherlands during the period, this is an anthology of European thought at large. Included are foreign thinkers who exercised influence on the philosophical life of the Dutch Republic & who developed their ideas through interaction with other philosophers.