9/15/17

Please keep in mind that I have been forced to be the first blogger when reading this...

So basically...

•  there were 6 important people we talked about today(in no particular order):
• 1. Gutenberg was uber important- printing press allowed for mass printing 
• 2. Martin Luther also important
• if his ideas weren't spread as a result of the printing press, he prob would have been seen as a heretic and killed
• heretics- what people who criticized the church were called 
• 3. Erasmus- the father of Christian humanism 
• 4. Petrarch- the father of "regular" humanism 
• 5. Moore- created the "perfect" society called Utopia 
• 6. Machiavelli- applied humanism to politics
• have to be a fox(cunning and sneaky) and a lion(strong and firm)
• better to be feared than loved 
• easier to maintain power through the usage of fear 
• weakness leads to disorder 
• what ties these people together?
• revolution of thought
• all people who took the worldview of the Renaissance to certain areas/things 
• world view=humanism 

Also stuff I thought was important...

• what is humanism?
• basically about doing something important with your life 

• Erasmus "Praise of Folly"
• very critical of all:
• merchants, monks, theologians, monks 

• Italian Renaissance was more secular(not religious) 

• Praise of filly- a satire that poked fun at religious institutions