Since the Renaissance humanism onward, we have taken an essentialist approach towards social and moral issues; that is, all traditional values are essentially redundant and all modern values are ...

The Renaissance, spanning the 14th to 17th centuries, marked a pivotal "rebirth" in Europe, transitioning from the Middle Ages to modernity. This period witnessed a resurgence of classical learning, ...

Without a pithy definition or clear doctrine, she can manage only to narrow humanism down to three characteristics ... and scholars who anticipated the Renaissance, such as Petrarch and Boccaccio.

The Renaissance is depicted as a period of profound change, leading to a new understanding of individuality, knowledge, and the human condition. Keywords Renaissance, humanism, classical ideals ...

The second renaissance will replace technological ... and humanness will be a sought-after scarcity. These are the human-only traits and characteristics I call the ‘androrithms’ - the opposite ...

The secular world many of us inhabit is a continuation of Renaissance humanism, but what do the roots of this tradition tell us about its chances for survival in this unnamable present of ...

What we need is a revival of humanism. This need not be secular humanism (though it will be for some). In the Renaissance, humanism involved claiming every area of achievement in art or science ...

So, you can probably imagine how nerve-wracking it was when I was asked to interview David Douglass, who is widely considered to be one of the most prolific Renaissance violinists ... I’ve ever met on ...

Katherine Eggert - Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 ...