HUMA 1170 Lecture 4: Huma 1170 Week 4 - The Early Modern 2- Representing the Modern Self
5 Oct 2016
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Huma 1170 week 4 - the early modern 2: representing the modern self. Giovanni pico della mirandola (the great chain of being passage what stikes you about this passage) As people are questioning vertical hierarchies, they are looking horizontally. A new concern: not out place vertically, but our place horizontally, our place in our world: in nature and society. Again, old concerns don"t disappear: still hierarchies, still god and religion, still elites and monarchies. He is nothing what is new: discoveries and inventions. Golden age in the ancient world was an age that didn"t stray from cosmos. Ficino"s golden age is an age of newness: he"s reflecting on his times (news) things that have happened 100+ years ago. Roman empire established cities throughout mediterranean world: established urbanization. With collapse of western empire (476 ce), fragmentation and disurbanization. After crusades, lots of fairly wealthy knights with nothing to do but hang around royal courts.
