Renaissance humanism
Rebirth-era intellectualism
Renaissance humanism was an intellectual movement in Europe from roughly the 14th to 16th centuries, emphasizing the study of classical Greek and Roman texts, the dignity of human potential, and education in grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and moral philosophy.
Humanists turned from medieval scholasticism toward ancient sources, believing classical learning could improve individual character and civic life.
The term now sometimes refers broadly to any philosophy centering human values and reason.
- classical educationGreco-Roman intellectual training
- classical learningGreco-Roman academic tradition
- NeoplatonismPlotinus's systematic mystical metaphysics
- philosophyStudy of fundamental truths
- classicismAdherence to ancient artistic principles
Florence · Erasmus · education · hermeneutics · Petrarch · classical antiquity · allegory · liberal arts · liberal education · civic virtue · ancient texts · Cicero · Medici · letters · liberal arts education · enlightenment · civic · human dignity
Renaissance humanismasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
otherworldliness · puritanism · religious fanaticism · anti-intellectualism · iconoclasm
Renaissance humanismmedieval period
Post-Roman, pre-Renaissance era
Counter-Reformation · Gothic culture · barbarism · Protestant Reformation · Romanticism
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