HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Shining Light, Coluccio Salutati
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Merchants saw church and church said things the way merchants made money (eg church said not take money with interest) and idea of humility didn"t work for them. Thus merchants were looking for a new ideology. Merchants beleive there is more in this world than to get into heaven. He was cut off from his own society and extended family. Petrarch said there is a connection between the ability to reason speak and our soul. He began to see people like cicero were good since they had a sense of humanity and told us how to live and help us to make decisions. He stated validation of human spirit doesn"t have to have a divine guidance. It can have a human meaning and guidance. Petrarch said going to heaven is your personal life but there is a secular life which is functioning on earth: obeying on earth, etc regardless of what you believe.
