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A Renaissance value system centered on human stories, earthly flourishing, beauty, truth, and making the present world better.
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Humanism
A Renaissance value system centered on human stories, earthly flourishing, beauty, truth, and making the present world better.
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Humanism shifts the central question from God's nature and salvation to human stories, flourishing, talents, earthly goodness, beauty, and truth.
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The artistic transition from classical Greece to medieval Christianity to Renaissance can be understood as a move between story, idea, and revived story: Greek sculpture invites imaginative participation, medieval Christian art demands submission, and Renaissance art returns the viewer to living drama.
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Dante's values become the basis of modernity, especially individuality and humanism: the individual celebrates the self, pursues curiosity, explores the world, and creates goodness, truth, and beauty.
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"...system that underpins all this artistic production is the idea of humanism. So what is humanism? And how is it different from Christianity? So..."
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"...possible life on earth? So the Greek word is eudaimonia. So humanism is actually a return to the values and belief systems of classical..."
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"It happened through art. So the main transition, to emphasize, is a transition from a focus on ideas to a focus on stories. So..."
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"become the basis for modernity especially the idea of individuality of humanism right what's individual an individual is someone who celebrates himself and pursues..."
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"The French Revolution marks the beginning of liberalism, modernity, humanism, a lot of great things that now define our modern world, okay? We will..."
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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