Published 2025-08-18
Keywords
- Renaissance,
- philosophy,
- Literature,
- history of thought
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Abstract
This text critically analyzes the concepts of humanism, humanities, and humanist from three different perspectives. The traditional view places humanism in the Renaissance as a human-centered philosophy opposed to medieval scholasticism. The critical view questions this narrative and distinguishes between humanism (a modern term), humanities (studia humanitatis), and humanist (who taught rhetoric or grammar). Finally, the skeptical view maintains that humanism as such did not exist during the Renaissance and that the terms used are anachronistic. The text invites a deeper examination of these notions.
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