Concept in Definition ABC

It is known as Humanism that movement intellectual, artistic, philological and philosophical that took place in the fourteenth century on the Italian peninsula, closely linked to the Renaissance and that it proposed a return to an integral formation of man, in which all aspects referred to and were based on classical Greco-Latin sources, that is, Basically, their task would be to restore all those old disciplines that took place in the temporal space that we mentioned adored the members of this phenomenon and then of In this way, when these authors were better known and understood, who were purposely considered a model of humanity to follow, pure and not contaminated by the dark and vicious Middle Ages.

One of his tasks would be, for example, recreation schools in which this study was studied and promoted thought philosophical and also imitate his style and type of language.

Grammar, rhetoric, history, literature, the moral philosophy, among others are some of the disciplines that were most developed.

Meanwhile, this imitation, sorry, homage, assumed two different modalities. The Imitatio Ciceroniana or imitation of a single author and the eclectic imitatio or the imitation of the best of each Greco-Latin author that was mainly promoted by Erasmus of Rotterdam.

Among the main factors that are counted as triggers and promoters of Humanism, we find the following: patrons, those men with ample monetary availability who decided to bet on and favor the work of thinkers and artists, the creation of universities and schools, the emigration of Byzantine scholars, who as a result of the threat of the Turks emigrated to Italy and with them also moved their books, culture and values ​​and the invention of the printing press that made diffusion at a mass level much faster and easier without investing so much effort and of course money.

Regarding the most salient postulates that this movement proclaimed, they are counted: anthropocentrism or belief that everything revolves around to man, it is not defamed or considered impure to desire fame, money, success, importance of trade, exaltation of pacifism in against war, achieve a more human spirituality, prevalence of optimism over pessimism and the desire for unity politics