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HUMANISM THROUGH
RENAISSANCE
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS
1466 - 1536
He is a Dutch Renaissance humanist,
Catholic,
Priest, Social Critic, Teacher,
and a Theologian.
He has been called the “crowning glory of Christian
Humanist”.
He believes that Religion is a
process and not an act.
Religion is less to enlighten the mind than to transform
the heart.
That the goal of all our efforts is Christ, and the
road to Him is faith.
The first one who wanted to advocate the reformation of
Catholic Church’s Revolution.
Erasmus felt that the Roman Catholic Church
needed to reform its superstitious and corrupt
behaviour.
His most famous work, In Praise of Folly in 1509
attacked monks, theologians, and other
Christians
for not seeing the true purpose of life, which is
to imitate Christ.
Using humanist techniques for
working on texts, he prepared
important new Latin and Greek editions of the New Testament.
His Latin and Greek translations of the
Bible
became instrumental for the Church’s
Reformation.
With the use of his works,
Christianity
ideas started to spread among people.
And with his advocacy on Church’s Reformation,
more and more people believe in Christianity
Again.
Giambattista Vico
1668—1744
The first to merit the name
Philosopher of History
He is often credited with the
invention of
Philosophy of History
He was the first to take seriously the
possibility that people had
fundamentally different schema of thought in different
historical eras.
Became the first to chart a course of
history that depended on the
way
the structure of thought changed
over time.
The verum-factum principle is one of his
two most famous ideas.
Holds that one can know the truth in what one makes.
He believed that to know something fully
requires understanding how it
came to be.
Explains that since we are the cause of what we make,
we can know what was made.
Since humans have made the civil world, they can
understand the cause of the civil world and know the
truth about it.
Since natural objects were not made by the scientists who study
them,
their nature must remain to some degree
mysterious.
He also believed that the historian must
look to the past and understand it in
collective
and institutional as well as personal
(empathetic) terms.
The past should be understood sympathetically -- the historian should not
judge the past according to present standards and
values.
The past ought to be examined in light of its historical context (the
"pastness of the past").
JESRAEL AMBROS
MEDRANO
BSED-III Social Studies
09/10/15