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What are “Values” of Society?
• Write down what you think the values of
society are…
• Get up and meet someone across the room
and share out your thoughts with each other
There Were Three Important Values
that set Renaissance Thought apart
from the Middle Ages
• Individualism: Celebration of the Individual
• Humanism: Love of Classical Learning
• Secularism: Enjoyment of Worldly Pleasures
Individualism • Celebration of the individual
– Individuals become more
important than churches, guilds,
etc.
– Artists wanted to be remembered-
everyone did!
• Biographies and portrait painting
• emphasize the importance of
individuals
How is this different from
the Middle Ages?
Humanism • Humanism- the study of classical
culture
– What every educated person should know
– Focused Greece and Rome
• scholars rejected the culture of the Middle ages
• returned to Greek and Roman culture
• All art was inspired by Greece and Rome – Freestanding statues
How is this different from the Middle Ages?
Secularism
• Secularism: the belief that
religion should have little part in
political or public affairs
• Enjoy worldly pleasures/luxuries
– Clothes, jewels, food
• Art had more earthly subjects
How is this different from
the Middle Ages?
Write down these questions and
answer them in the space for each
picture and quote.
• What values of society from the Renaissance are present
in this image/passage?
• How is human nature described in this image/passage?
• How is the role of government displayed in this
image/passage?
• What is the role of religion in this image/passage?
• What are the key vocabulary words present in this
image/passage? (Use your T.U.S.K. Sheet)
“But we must not forget that true distinction is to be
gained by a wide and varied range of such studies as
conduce to the profitable enjoyment of life, in which,
however, we must observe due proportion in the
attention and time we devote to them. First amongst
such studies I place History: a subject which must not
on any account be neglected by one who aspires to
true cultivation. For it is our duty to understand the
origins of our own history and its development; and
the achievements of Peoples and of Kings.”
– Leonardo Bruni’s “Study of Greek Literature and a
Humanist Educational Program”
“Upon this a question arises: whether it is better to be loved than feared or feared
than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, it is much safer to be feared than loved, when,
of the two, either must be dispensed with.”
– Machiavelli’s The Prince
“He desired glory and excellence more than any man,
but he can be criticized for having carried this desire
even into unimportant matters. In versifying, in
games, and in other pursuits he got very angry with
anyone who equaled him or imitated him. The desire
was too strong in important matters too. He wanted to
equal and compete with all the princes of Italy in
everything.”
– Francesco Guicciardini’s History of Florence
“Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to
maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be
vegetative, he will be like a plant. If sensitive, he
will become brutish. If rational, he will grow into a
heavenly being. If intellectual, he will be an angel
and the son of God. And if, happy in the lot of no
created thing, he withdraws into the center of his
own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the
solitary darkness of God, who is set above all
things, shall surpass them all.”
– Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man