Humanist Philosophers CHY Lesson 12 Humanist Philosophers Learning

Humanist Philosophers CHY Lesson 12

Humanist Philosophers Learning Goal: Be able to clearly explain the ideas and theories of at least one humanist philosopher 1. 2. 3. 4. Discuss the philosophers as a class Partner activity: textbook question page 27 #2 Note (The Renaissance Society and Modernity) Review questions

Bruni

Christine de Pisan

Giovanni Pico della Mirandolo

Thomas More

Textbook page 27, question 2 • Work with a partner, chart paper, and markers to answer this question. Feel free to substitute the other philosophers we have looked for some of the ones listed in the question. • Grab magnets from me and post your finished work on the board.

Renaissance Art • This time period changed the way artists are perceived in society • A shift from art and architecture simply being to glorify God • Medieval art is often seen as a decline from the time of Rome • Renaissance artists focused on proportion, order, harmony, symmetry, etc. • Reflected the world around them • Church continued to sponsor art and architecture but so did the middle classes

• Wealthy people commissioned art to celebrate their own achievements • Portraits, family homes, civic buildings, etc. , all required skilled artists • The artist achieved great recognition and fame, as well • Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci were hired by popes and princes • Considered geniuses and masters of their craft

• Renaissance art embraced classical myths as inspiration • Art was made to represent the human condition • Seeing the divine in the ordinary and every day

Renaissance Society • Moved from communal family to nuclear family with the growth of new wealth • Property could be divided among individual family members • Each man could have his own property • Marriage became more personal (less of an alliance between 2 families) • Encouraged a broad education in classics and religion • Young men also needed history, literature, ethics, and rhetoric

• The idea of the knight was transformed to the idea of the gentlemen • Refined manners and knowledge of the arts • Castiglione’s work The Courtier (1528) influenced courtly life • Virtues of moderation, liberality, wisdom, justice were encouraged • Women were to please the men, treated fairly by them, but always inferior • Women were more educated but not ever equal • Women managed households, household finances, and had authority over children

• Men managed the public sphere, women ran the home • Double standard when it came to sex; men could have lots of sex, women could not!

Society and Class • 80% of the population was made up of peasants (free and serfs) • After the Black Death (mid-14 th C), serfdom declined • Simpler to grant freedom to serfs and then rent land to them (tenant farmers) • 30% of this peasant population became urban poor, working for professionals (lawyers, bankers, skilled workers, etc. ) • Upsurge in slavery (mainly from black cultures) • Most in domestic service but some as skilled labourers • Didn’t last long as it started to decline by 1500

Homework: 1. Read page 26 (from The Development of the State…). Make notes to add to this powerpoint. 2. C Answer questions 1, 3, 4, and 5 or 9 on page 27 U Answer questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 9 on page 27