... Pleasure which describing the senses as the highest good. Secularism weakened the power of Christianity over the people, and therefore, as Christian humility and the quest for god weakened, and allowed individualism and humanism prevailed. These Renaissance ideals produced new educational and political theory and a new standard of moral thought. Humanists labored to create a structure for education and training of rulers. Baldassare Castiglione wrote the widely read The Courtier, which the young man into ... the court ideal, a well-rounded gentleman. This book changed the pattern of con...

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