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The Renaissance
World View, Human Nature and
Civilizations
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World View
and Human Nature
• World View refers to the overall perspective
through which one sees the world.
• Human nature refers to the distinguishing
characteristics, including ways of thinking,
feeling and acting, that humans tend to have
naturally, i.e. independently of the influence
of culture.
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World View
and Human Nature
Both have evolved over time:
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Ancient Mythology
• The world and human nature explained
through supernatural lore.
• Can mythology effectively explain the
world and human nature?
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Ancient Greek Philosophy
• The Ancient Greek philosophical
tradition broke away from a
mythological approach to explaining the
world, and it initiated an approach
based on REASON and EVIDENCE.
• Example: Plato
Plato
• Plato believed that each human was
composed of three souls: desire, will,
and the rational.
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Plato - an allegory
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• Plato presented this theory metaphorically,
comparing the rational soul to a charioteer
whose vehicle is drawn by two horses, one
powerful but unruly (desire) and the other
disciplined and obedient (will).
Plato
• On Plato's view, then, an human being is properly said
to be just when the three souls perform their proper
functions in harmony with each other, working in for the
good of the person as a whole.
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Plato and the State (Society)
• As in a well-organized state, the justice
of an individual human being emerges
only from the interrelationship among its
separate components.
• Like the human who is one whole made
up of it’s parts, Plato believed society
was one whole made up of many parts.
Human = State (Society)
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What does a human need in order to be
healthy?
• What does society need in order to be
healthy?
Place-mat activity:
a) Record answers independently
b) Share clockwise
c) Record group responses in centre
d) Report back to class
What are the requirements of
a Civilization?
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The Fall of Rome
According to Plato if the ‘parts’ of a civilization
are working in harmony, than that civilization
will flourish.
Why did the
Roman Empire fall?
How might Plato have
explain this?
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Medieval Thinkers
• Nearly all of the medieval thinkers—Jewish,
Christian, and Muslim—were pre-occupied
with some version of the attempt to synthesis
philosophy with religion.
• Example: Augustine
• What is a logical equation to show the
relationship between (1) philosophy,
(2) religion and (3) the Medieval worldview?
Augustine’s Medieval
Worldview
• Man is born evil
(original sin)
• The pursuit of
knowledge and
redemption is an
impossible task.
• God is all-knowing
and all-power.
He alone can save
human’s from their evil
ways.
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Implications (consequences)
of the Medieval Worldview
• What does Augustine think of learning?
• What impact does this have on
Medieval Society?
• What does Augustine think of human
nature?
• How did this thinking impact Medieval
society?
Journal Entry
• The word Renaissance means ‘rebirth’.
With specific reference to the Ancient and
Medieval ideas, predict what shift in
worldview (perspective) made the
Renaissance possible. (How did
changes in people’s thinking cause the
Renaissance?)
Quote
“There is no intelligence where there is no
need of change.” ― H.G. Wells, The
Time Machine