DRM100Y1 Lecture Notes - Blank Verse, Puritans, Christopher Marlowe
12 Dec 2012
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It was a time when people started to see themselves as individuals and produce art and music, etc. because of this rebirth. There were new discoveries about the solar system and astronomy. It"s a return to the classic, with a heavy influence on the greeks. The individual did not have much importance except as a tiny cog in the great wheel that moved according to god"s will. Nothing is of less sacred than the integrity of your own mind . We observe the facts that are observable, we reason towards them, and we need to test our suspicions. What is humanism?-a term that is applied to the predominant social, philosophical mind frame from 1400-1600ish. It stimulated the philosophy of secularism, of worldly pleasures, appreciation of humanism philosophy, individual expression and started a new excitement about the classics. The renaissance embraced the pursuit of beauty and pleasure as a legit human endeavor.
