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Renaissance humanism was a European intellectual movement beginning in Florence in the last decades of the 14th century. Its focus was on human dignity and potential and the place of mankind in nature; it valued the witnesses of reason and the evidence of the senses in reaching the truth over the Christian values of humility, introspection, and passivity, or "meekness" that had dominated European thought in the previous centuries. Beauty was held to represent a deep inner virtue and value, and an essential element in the path towards God. The movement developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of many Latin and Greek texts.
The humanists were in opposition to the philosophers of the day, the "schoolmen" of the Italian universities, or Oxford or Paris, whose methodology was derived from Thomas Aquinas.
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@DaisyDeadhead Er, it doesn't sound like you've read much about modern humanism. It's not Renaissance humanism.
jrdskinner (JRD Skinner) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:00:46 -0000
@DaisyDeadhead Er, it doesn't sound like you've read much about modern humanism. It's not Renaissance humanism.
Lit next block woo Renaissance Humanism
The_Kelsey (Kelsey Leung) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:51:59 -0000
Lit next block woo Renaissance Humanism
I think this professor knows only one period in history of philosophy - renaissance and humanism.
b_meier (Benjamin Meier) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:15:31 -0000
I think this professor knows only one period in history of philosophy - renaissance and humanism.
Actually, does anyone know owt about renaissance humanism on Twitter? Or is this actually pointless?
elliellellen (Ellen Moran) Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:16:56 -0000
Actually, does anyone know owt about renaissance humanism on Twitter? Or is this actually pointless?
Belief in witches reached its zenith concurrently with late-Renaissance humanism, and not during Middle Ages, oddly enough.
mhsteger (Michael Steger) Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:26:09 -0000
Belief in witches reached its zenith concurrently with late-Renaissance humanism, and not during Middle Ages, oddly enough.
Renaissance Culture) - Renaissance humanists (Christian) and Catholicism. From the Library of Congress, US.
Meta Description: [ Images and descriptions of items relating to humanism from the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana; part of the Library of Congress' “Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture” exhibit ]
Renaissance Humanism - Extensive bibliography compiled by Fr. William Harmless, S.J., Spring Hill College.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Renaissance Humanism - Nicola Abbagnano writes about the ideals of the era. From the Dictionary of the History of Ideas.
Humanism - History of Humanism as it evolved during the Renaissance.
The Renaissance: Humanism - Lecture notes and assignments, giving a good overview of this period of history.
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