1. Humanism and Renaissance Europe: A Transition into the Self
His writings provide definition to humanism, revealing Medieval History as barbaric, in a primitive and brutal sense, but he declares that classical history, on the other hand, should be the basis for life. ... Augustinus says: You are playing on words. ... In political thought, this perspective yielded studies in "realpolitik,"" a very practical, even cynical view of human behavior and a form of politics void of morality that uses reason to justify violence. ...
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