Early modern Aristotelianism and the making of philosophical disciplines: metaphysics, ethics and politics

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part One Methodus -- 1 The Origins and Development of the 'Acroamatic-Exoteric' Distinction in the Late Renaissance -- The ancient debate -- Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda -- Francesco Patrizi, Giacomo Zabarella and Carlo Sigonio -- Ottaviano Ferrari's De sermonibus exotericis -- Ferrari: The 'analytical' pattern of the paedia -- Ferrari's model of education -- Philipp Scherb and the Clavis Philosophiae Peripateticae of Melchior Goldast -- Part Two Theoria -- 2 The Historical Significance of the Ramist Critique of Metaphysics -- The problem of Ramus's philosophical thought and his attack on metaphysics -- Philipp Scherb: The Aristotelian shift of the Altdorf school -- The semi-Ramist Aristotelianism of Bartholomäus Keckermann -- Cornelius Martini and the Helmstedt dispute -- The formal/objective distinction -- The disciplinization of metaphysics: Consequences and aftermaths -- 3 Ernst Soner's Commentary on the Metaphysics and the Scholastic Tradition -- Problems with a Socinian metaphysics -- Scherb's master, Tommaso Pellegrini -- Soner's commentary on the Metaphysics -- The Prolegomena -- The being and its affections -- The commentary on Book XII -- Soner's philosophical theology -- Soner and Cesalpino -- Epilogue: Crell and the critique of Alexandrian finalism -- Part Three Praxis -- 4 The Aristotelians and the New Science of Politics -- The prudentia civilis of the political adviser in the early Schulphilosophie -- Timpler -- Althusius -- Keckermann -- Reason of state and political Aristotelianism: Hermann Conring and the troublesome legacy of the Politics -- Prudentia civilis as a cognitive habitus for the reason of state -- The limits of Aristotle's Politics -- Conring's edition and interpretation -- Aftermaths.