Burckhardt also believed in humanism, which is a philosophy that stressed the dignity of humankind, individualism, and secular values. ... However, despite their accusations of exaggeration and bias of Burckhardt, most scholars agree that the Renaissance was a time of transition from medieval to modern society. ... They took Plato's ideas and philosophies and combined it with Catholic teachings. ... The Renaissance was the key in bridging the gap between Medieval and modern times. ...

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" By 600 BC Greek philosophers started to investigate natural events and as a result the beginnings of both Greek philosophy and science were established. ... Voltaire, in the eighteenth century, dismissed the Middle Ages as unworthy of study because medieval men and women were not "enlightened," as he felt himself to be (HP4). ... Analytical philosophy is a method of approaching philosophical problems through analysis of the terms in which they are expressed (5). ... The key characteristics of Marxism in philosophy are its materialism and its commitment to political practice. ...

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It would not be until the Medieval period that Herodotus" and Thucydides" purposes of writing history would take a turn to a more religious bias. ... As we move out of the medieval period and into the renowned Renaissance, we begin to see another major movement in the objective of written history. ... He separates history from philosophy, being the first to completely do so. ...

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Tacitus followed more or less the pattern of Thucydides but with a brooding moral interest in the decay of Roman society. 6 Medieval Historiography The concern with separating fact from fiction and legend often disappeared in medieval historiography. Medieval works tended to divide into two types of histories. ... Among the better medieval histories was Bede's Ecclesiastical History, an early model in a branch of historiography that has been of great importance. ... Medieval Islamic historians such as al-Tabari and al-Masudi wrote histories of great scope, often employing sophi...

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As it was out with the former medieval view and in with the philosophy, art and architecture of the ancient Greek view, the Renaissance debuted as a time capsule, allowing civilization to return to a sensory, self-conscious world rather than the 'meaningless' one that it had become. ...

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