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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Rise and Fall of Humanism in Italy
There were precursors to what we think of as humanism in ancient Greece. But arguably your story starts in the 1300s in Italy. And so how did it start? Why did they start? What were they acting against? I kind of started it there because it has to start somewhere, and it is quite a traditional place to start telling the story of humanism.
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