Questions and Answers
What is the most common application of the term "humanism"?
A system of education and mode of inquiry
What is the origin of the idea of the Renaissance as a distinct historical period?
A renewal and reawakening of a distinct historical period
What is the time period during which the system of education and mode of inquiry known as Renaissance humanism developed?
14th century
Study Notes
- The term "humanism" is freely applied to a variety of beliefs, methods, and philosophies that place central emphasis on the human realm.
- Most frequently, however, the term is used with reference to a system of education and mode of inquiry that developed in northern Italy during the 13th and 14th centuries and later spread through continental Europe and England.
- Alternately known as Renaissance humanism, this program was so broadly and profoundly influential that it is one of the chief reasons why the Renaissance is viewed as a distinct historical period.
- Indeed, though the word Renaissance is of more recent coinage, the fundamental idea of that period as one of renewal and reawakening is humanistic in origin.
- But humanism sought its own philosophical bases in far earlier times and, moreover, continued to exert some of its power long after the end of the Renaissance.
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