Renaissance Humanism (RH)
represents a philosophical reaction to medieval Christian scholasticism. At its
core RH was driven notions of practicality, improvement within a classical
framework. It sought to create a well rounded citizen who could engage in the
secular disciplines – grammar, rhetoric, poetry that departed from the
narrowness of scholasticism. The concept of the Renaissance Man as the master
of many disciplines is an outcrop from such philosophy. The Italian cities of
Florence, Naples, Rome, Venice and Genoa were the centers of such thought that
offered at its core a recourse to rationalism.
Giordano Bruno source: National Catholic Register
As a way of thinking RH
influenced both the Reformation and Counter-Reformation and seems to have
played a key role in both the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.
An important aspect of RH was
its emphasis on the individual, classical philosophy and Platonism. Leading RH
thinkers include Giordano Bruno, Cornelius Agrippa, Pico della Mirandola and
the Dutchman Desiderius Erasmus.
Desiderius Erasmus. source: biography.com
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