This time period, known as the Renaissance, was seen as a new age of learning and thinking with a cultural movement in which art, literature, music, philosophy, and education contributed to numerous developments and influences. ... Classical texts previously lost to European scholars became readily available and included science, drama, poetry, prose, philosophy, and new ideas regarding Christian theology. ... Supporting this conviction was the development of new artistic techniques, architectural styles, philosophies and educational practices, which extended throughout Europe. ... Scholars be...

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These three interests found representation in the three dominant strands of Renaissance philosophy: (1) political theory, (2) humanism and (3) the philosophy of nature. ... Of all the practices of Renaissance Europe, nothing is used to distinguish the Renaissance from the Middle Ages more than humanism as both a program and a philosophy. The humanists of the Renaissance rediscovered the Latin and Greek classics (hence the "rebirth" or "renaissance" of the classical world), that humanist philosophy stressed the dignity of humanity, and that humanists shifted intellectual emphasis off of th...

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From these early curious Christians came different philosophies of life. ... These knew philosophies set up a future of inventions for Christianity, not conflicts with science. ... Studies of agriculture were performed and findings like, "consistent yields of eight times seed sown were reported" (http://www.hyw.com/). ... As if these clergymen had not invented enough they also led the way in the study of medicine. ... It has been taught that he was excommunicated solely on the basis that he was acting against what the church taught and therefore against the church, but recent studies ...

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Others discovered the joy of reading classical books and became interested in poetry, history, and philosophy. ... Scholars discovered a new study of culture, known as humanism. ... Humanist in the North, such as Thomas said that "their knowledge and the study of the natural world could serve as a ladder to the study of the supernatural" (The Flow of History). The Northern humanist had a goal to convince people that the study of the classics could help Christianity and they succeeded. ... Humanist would use classical work as models to write about literature and philosophy that discus...

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The Roman poet Virgil, who guides Dante through hell, acts as the symbol of reason and studies the varieties of human sin (Sayre 441). ... And to Dante's surprise, he found Aristotle among the souls in the "Citadel of Human Reason," who is described, "the master of those who know, ringed by the great souls of philosophy (Alighieri III. 131-132)." The philosophy of Aristotle influenced Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, two of Dante's favorite Christian thinkers, whom, Raffa notes, "strove to validate the role of reason and to sharpen its relationship to fai...

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For nearly 2,600 years, the preeminent philosophy in Western Civilization employed to "create- order in the world has been "Dualism,"" which is directly traceable to the 6th century B.C. ... Many predominant modern philosophies in Western civilization are directly traceable to Zoroastrianism through (1) the Greek philosophers Plato, Aristotle, and Zeno, (2) the Roman Stoics, (3) the Manicheans and Saint Augustine of Hippo in the Third Century A.D., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the 13th cent...

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Social Influences of The Renaissance OUTLINE I. Introduction to the Renaissance A. What is the Renaissance B. The time period of the Renaissance C. Nations of the Renaissance II. Humanism A. What the humanist believed B. What the humanist studied C. What influenced humanist beliefs I...

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One of Petrarch's legacies was his belief that the recovery and study of the works of antiquity could restore virtue, culture, and social order. ... Most of these were actually posted; a few, such as his rhetorical letters to Cicero, Plato, and Seneca, were never intended to be, but were simply written as a statement of Petrarch's philosophy in the context of the addressee's. ... Based on his studies of Cicero, Petrarch believed that there had to be more to virtue than religion. ...

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