Renassaince and Humanism

Renassaince and Humanism

1. In the 14th and 15th centuries, a very special movement emerged, humanism, which will go from the hand of the so-called Renaissance. The term 'renaissance' is derived from the French word meaning 'rebirth'. The people had awareness that the world was in a new era, while appreciating again the literature, philosophy and classical Greco-Roman art.

   • Leonardo Da Vinci: He is considered one of the greatest geniuses of all time. He sought the intimacy of the human being and the scientific explanation of the truth. He dedicated much time and drawings to the knowledge of the human anatomy and proposed in universal canon of the proportions of the body, captured in a representative drawing "The man of Vitruvius" (1490)
     • Humanism is still in force in any doctrine whose fundamental principle is respect for the human being and awareness of his/ her dignity. Today the world is globalized and we are more of 7.3 billion human beings. Nevertheless, poverty persists for half of that population, and there are terrible inequalities.

2. pedagogical, literary, philosophical and relAt that time, "humanists" were called professors of language, literature, history and art, and "Humanities" to the studies of those subjects. Now, humanism surpassed the world academic, and it was not only igious, but it became a way of thinking and living that revolved around a main idea: IN THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE IS MAN, image of God, privileg

   • The Renaissance is a time of rupture with medieval obscurantism, a period of renewal of art and letters and the recovery of reason
     • The capital ideological feature of Renaissance humanism was anthropocentrism, that is, the consideration that everything revolves around man. The man is the center of creation. It proclaims pacifism in rejection of all kind of wars that threatens human’s dignity.

3. Representative figures are: Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), who studied and established the authentic text of Virgil, Livy, Cicero and San Austin, and Giovanni Boccaccio’s works (1313-1375), that drove public education in Florence. He also translated from the Greek language some books of Homer and Euripides.

   • However, what is important is the human being and he must be the center of all concerns. Humanism seeks to awaken the consciousness of the powerful, because the problems of health, employment, education and housing in various regions of the planet could be solved with very little of the wealth of the First World.

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