Renaissance

Renaissance

Characters
Authors
1. Shakespeare
Skepticism and Melancholy
1. What is the purpose or ultimate worth of all this activity?
2. a loss of firm belief in the final unity and the final itelligibility of the universe
3. paralysis
Well-Lived Life
1. Code of Behavior
  1. NOT in terms of right and wrong, of good and evil (a moral "test") w/ rewards/punishment in the afterlife)
  2. its present concrete validity and effectiveness
    1. the delight it affords
    2. its memorability
    3. its beauty
  3. emphasis on the immediate and tangible
    1. earthly, amoral, and aesthetic character
  4. individual human action
    1. seeking in itself its own reward
      1. finds justification ...
        in its formal appropriateness
        in its being a well-rounded achievement, perfect of its kind
        in the zest and gusto with which it is, here and now, performed
        in its proving worthy of remaining as a testimony to the performer's power on earth
  5. Purpose of Life
    1. the unrestrained and self-sufficient practice of one's "virtue", the competent and delighted exercise of one's skill

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	Created by Anthony Giacomelli over 10 years ago