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Gideon Burton

Elizabethan Period - 1 views

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renaissance period elizabethan

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  • Kaden Taylor on 12 Oct 10
     
    A site explaining several aspects of life during the Elizabethan Era, including music, theater, superstitions, and inventions of the time.
  • Gideon Burton on 12 Oct 10
     
    Recommended by Kaden Taylor
Gideon Burton

Renaissance Humanism - 0 views

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renaissance humanism

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  • Expansion of trade, growth of prosperity and luxury, and widening social contacts generated interest in worldly pleasures, in spite of formal allegiance to ascetic Christian doctrine. Men thus affected -- the humanists -- welcomed classical writers who revealed similar social values and secular attitudes.
  • Perhaps the most we can assume is that the man of the Renaissance lived, as it were, between two worlds. The world of the medieval Christian matrix, in which the significance of every phenomenon was ultimately determined through uniform points of view, no longer existed for him. On the other hand, he had not yet found in a system of scientific concepts and social principles stability and security for his life. In other words, Renaissance man may indeed have found himself suspended between faith and reason.
  • Humanism embodied the mystical and aesthetic temper of a pre-scientific age.
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  • It did not free the mind from subservience to ancient authority.
  • They shifted authorities rather than dismissed them
  • The intellectuals of antiquity
  • were primarily interested in a happy, adequate, and efficient life here on earth. Hellenic philosophy was designed to teach man how to live successfully rather than how to die with the assurance of ultimate salvation.
  • Humanism directly and indirectly revived the pagan scale of virtues.
  • Erasmus
  • The first place must indeed be given to the authority of the Scriptures; but, nevertheless, I sometimes find some things said or written by the ancients, nay, even by the heathens, nay, by the poets themselves, so chastely, so holily, and so divinely, that I cannot persuade myself but that, when they wrote them, they were divinely inspired, and perhaps the spirit of Christ diffuses itself farther than we imagine; and that there are more saints than we have in our catalogue.
  • Another humanist trend which cannot be ignored was the rebirth of individualism
  • The leading intellectual trait of the era was the recovery, to a certain degree, of the secular and humane philosophy of Greece and Rome.
  • Individualism and the instinct of curiosity were vigorously cultivated. Honest doubt began to replace unreasoning faith.
  • the spirit of individualism to a certain degree incited the Protestant revolt, which, in theory at least, embodied a thorough application of the principle of individualism in religion.
  • Ariel Szuch on 11 Oct 10
     
    This was an excellent and concise overview of humanism and some of its major ideas.
  • Gideon Burton on 12 Oct 10
     
    A good overview of the period. Recommended by Ariel Szuch.
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