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CULTURAL CHANGES, Important - Coggle Diagram
CULTURAL CHANGES
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Humanist philosophy
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Main characteristics
Optimism and creativity
Religious beliefs that caused fear, the concept of sin,replaced by better life
Creativity oriented by obtaining techniques, in numerous inventions
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Anthropocentrism
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Continued to be christians, they abandoned theocentrism
Critical thinking
Knowledge was based on tradition, great scholars or sacred taxes
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At the beginning of the Early Modern Age there were also significant developments in thinking and science
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Important
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The Dutchman Erasmus of Rotterdam wrote The Praise of Folly (1511). This work criticised the customs of the time, including corruption in the church.
The Florentine Niccolo Machiavelli reflected on power. In his work The Prince (1513), he gave practical advice to the rulers of the time, without considering any moral implications.
The Englishman Thomas More wrote Utopia (1516). This proposed an ideal of a political system based on justice and equality.