Humanism isn't just the study of Literature and Philosophy it also includes many other aspects such as architecture and music. ... The people in the story get themselves out of problems without gods help. ... Most humanists wanted to bring together classical philosophy with Christianity however; Pico tried bringing together all human beliefs and religion. ... This was pretty much a guide to becoming successful. He was studying the rulers of ancient times and by studying what happened to them he wrote an entire book on informing people the correct rules of being in power. ...

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In addition, there was a sudden interest with problems centering on civil society, man and nature. 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 phi...

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All scientific or philosophical studies were supervised by, and in most cases produced by the Church. ... (Wikipedia Encyclopedia) A paradigm is an era of advancement that answers questions and solves problems. ... To continue past this point of mystery, the problem must be figured out. Once the problem is solved and the anomaly is entirely explained and understood; this is when a scientific revolution has occurred. ... The Scientific Revolution was beginning and it was starting with the study of nature. ...

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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. ... His imitation of Virgil's Aeneid shows the degree to which he relied on Classical literature as a source and guide. ... 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...

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