HIS243H1 Lecture : Renaissance Humanism
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The way to move forward was to move back. In order to find out is to look back at classical texts. Human dignity: man s privileged place in the universe. the importance of the individuals individuality, worth: pico: it is your choice to determine where you fit on the chain of being (god-> Human experience -> way of learning truth: the biggest problem in learning and understanding things, you can only learn things that are fixed and do not change. Things that change cannot be learned. angels -> animate -> rocks) worth: dialogue -> a way of getting truth, biography, personal writing -> letters. petrarch (cicero) y writes letters, and publishes them for other people. Channeling this from cicero used to do before he died. Duplicate the classical language: valla -> 2 debates on language. latin vs. vernacular y venaclar: french, italian, german, etc y latin is a single language.
