Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Philosophy at Early Modern Schools -- Chapter One Philosophers' Philosophy and School Philosophy -- 1.1 Philosophy is as Philosophers Do -- 1.2 Individual and Universal in Italian National Philosophy -- 1.3 Neo-Scholasticism and Transcendental Truth -- 1.4 Jesuit School Philosophy -- 1.5 School Philosophy vs. Philosophers' Philosophy -- Chapter Two Apostolato dei Collegi: On the Integration of Humanism in the Educational Program of the Jesuits -- 2.1 Jacobus Pontanus on the Usefulness of the Humanities -- 2.2 Organizing Public Education -- 2.3 Studia humanitatis -- 2.4 Scholastic Humanism -- Chapter Three Philosophy at Early Modern Universities -- 3.1 Structure and Heritage of Catholic Universities -- 3.2 Teaching Metaphysics at the Jesuit Colleges in Germany in the Seventeenth Century -- 3.3 The Ratio studiorum on Philosophy -- Chapter Four Péter Pázmány: The Cardinal's Philosophy -- 4.1 Pázmány as Professor of Philosophy -- 4.2 Manuscripts -- 4.3 Some Philosophical Themes -- 4.4 The Plan of a Philosophical Textbook -- Chapter Five Philosophy in Hungarian: Pál Bertalanffi SJ, Bernard Sartori OFM, and the Scholastic Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century -- 5.1 János Apáczai Csere -- 5.2 Pál Bertalanffi SJ -- 5.3 Bernard Sartori OFM -- Science From The Renaissance Through The Enlightenment -- Chapter Six Jesuits between Religion and Science -- 6.1 God in Natural Philosophy -- 6.2 Natural Theology -- 6.3 Piety and Science -- Chapter Seven Principles and Powers: How to Interpret Renaissance Philosophy of Nature Philosophically? -- 7.1 Cusanus and Ficino: Reasonable Questions behind Obscure Answers -- 7.2 Telesio: Is there any Order in Nature? -- 7.3 Cardano: The Unity of Nature and of its Explanation -- 7.4 Strategical Uniformity in Creating Theories -- 7.5 From Universality to Specialization.

Chapter Eight The Jesuits and the Janus-Faced History of Natural Sciences -- 8.1 Father Clavius's Complaints: Mathematics in the Jesuit Curriculum -- 8.2 The Unity of Human Episteme -- 8.3 Experiments with the Philosophy Course: Melchior Cornaeus S.J. -- 8.4 The Story of Science -- Chapter Nine Benedictus Pererius:Renaissance Culture at the Origins of Jesuit Science -- 9.1 Pererius and Averroes -- 9.2 Pererius and Renaissance Philosophy -- 9.3 The Role of Metaphysics within Philosophy -- 9.4 Concessions to Platonism -- 9.5 History of Philosophy against the Myth of Ancient Wisdom -- 9.6 Against Alchemy and Kabbalah -- 9.7 Dreams and Clairvoyance -- 9.8 Astrology -- Chapter Ten "Ubi natura facit circulos in essendo, nos facimus in cognoscendo." The Demonstrative Regressus and the Beginning of Modern Science in Catholic Scholastics -- 10.1 Scholastic and Cartesian Logic -- 10.2 Franciscus Toletus -- 10.3 French Contexts -- 10.4 Franciscans -- Chapter Eleven Aristotelianism More Geometrico: Honoré Fabri -- 11.1 A Key to Aristotelianism -- 11.2 Space: A Universal Concept -- 11.3 Excursus on Natural Theology -- 11.4 Hypothesis-Founded or Fictitious? -- Metaphysics and Theology -- Chapter Twelve Rodrigo de Arriaga on Immortality as a Response to Platonism -- 12.1 Ontology -- 12.2 Epistemology -- Chapter Thirteen Bartolomeo Mastri: From Metaphysics to Natural Theology -- 13.1 Kinds of Abstraction -- 13.2 The Competence of Metaphysics -- 13.3 Indifference -- 13.4 The Agenda of Modern Metaphysics -- 13.5 The Transcendence of Metaphysics -- 13.6 Subordination of Physics and Metaphysics -- 13.7 Philosophical Theology -- Chapter Fourteen Natural Theology and Philosophy of Religion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Théophile Raynaud, Luis de Molina, Joseph Falck, Sigismund von Storchenau -- 14.1 Preamble: Raymundus Sabundus -- 14.2 Théophile Raynaud.

14.3 Luis de Molina -- 14.4 Joseph Falck -- 14.5 Sigismund von Storchenau -- 14.6 Summary -- Chapter Fifteen God and Individuals: The Porphyrian Tree in Seventeenth/Eighteenth-Century Philosophy -- 15.1 The Contemporary Problem -- 15.2 The Aquinas' Approach in De ente et essentia -- 15.3 The Tree in Seventeenth-Century Scholasticism -- 15.4 Descartes and Cartesianism -- 15.5 Conclusion -- Appendices -- Chapter Sixteen Siger and Saint Thomas in the Paradiso -- Chapter Seventeen Cultivating Talents and Social Responsibility: Aims and Means of Early Jesuit Education -- References -- Index.