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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The History of Humanism in the 15th Century
When these first stories of humanism arose, we're in a very deeply religious culture at the time. Was there backlash or did people even realize that, oh, this was going to go bad places? Almost never because usually it wasn't really any kind of direct challenge to Christianity at all. But there are some exceptions where people did write things which antagonized the church greatly and challenged the church's claim to authority.
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