1. The Renaissance Period
European historians overwhelmingly tend to place Europe's major break with its medieval and classical past with the discovery of America and the Reformation. ... These three interests found representation in the three dominant strands of Renaissance philosophy: (1) political theory, (2) humanism and (3) the philosophy of nature. ... Humanism was initiated by secular men of letters rather than by the scholar-clerics that had dominated medieval intellectual life and had developed the Scholastic philosophy. ... Prior to Renaissance thinking Medieval Europe considered life to be sinf...
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