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HoP 426 - A Face Without a Heart - Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Individualism

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Myths of Renaissance Individualism

Modern day scholars have their own personal views on individualism in the Renaissance, including whether it was really something new. Medievalists have pointed out that there were already conceptions of personal piety and individual moral responsibility. Martin finds that the defining problem of identity in the Renaissance was how the experience of the inner world of each person was related to the larger social environment in which he or she lived.

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