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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Evolution of Renaissance Humanists
Renaissance humanists were fascinated by the idea of moral revival. The word l'unisti has a very specific meaning in Italian, based on those who teach and study Human Studies. It was drawing on classical Greek and Roman sense of what you needed to be a good person. Most Renaissance humanists were not unbelievers; that was extremely rare.
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