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THE RENAISSANCE AND HUMANISM - Coggle Diagram
THE RENAISSANCE AND HUMANISM
HUMANISM
RENAISSANCE
The term 'renaissance' is derived from the French word meaning 'rebirth'. The people had awareness that the world was in a new era, while appreciating again the literature, philosophy and classical Greco-Roman art.
It became a way of thinking and living that revolved around a main idea: in the center of the universe is man, image of God, privileged creature, more worthy than all things on Earth.
ITALIAN HUMANIST
Leonardo Bruni: He proposed forming to the students for an active service life to the community giving them a broad base and solid knowledge, ethical principles and capacity of written and spoken expression
Nicolas Machiavelli (1469-1527), founder of political science, who wrote the first dealt with how to conquer power and keep it.
Flavio Biondo (1392-1463) were the initiators of modern historiography
Leonardo da Vinci (1450–1519) is considered one of the greatest geniuses of all time.
DIFFUSION OF HUMANISM FOR EUROPE
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The rapid diffusion of Italian humanism was due to
The printing press
The epistolary relationship between men of European letters; and the first universities.
Other figures of humanism in Europe were :
-Thomas More (1478-1535), who visualized a perfect society in his book Utopia
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), the Polish scientist.
François Rabelais (1494-1553), who composed one of the first novels (Gargantua and Pantagruel).
HUMANISM
TODAY Humanism is still in force in any doctrine whose fundamental principle is respect for the human person. What is important is the human being and must be the center of all concerns.
TRAITS The capital ideological feature of Renaissance humanism was anthropocentrism, that is, the consideration that everything revolves around man It proposes that the man is the center of creation.