ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the rise of a broader notion of method within European thought and sees this phenomenon as a response to the religious violence that was plaguing Europe. It also underscores that method is another step in the fundamental “anthropologizing” of European thought. Among other thinkers considered are Rudolf Agricola (1444–1485), Francis Bacon (1561–1626), Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), and Peter Ramus (1515–1572).
