Humanism: Intellectual Movement Of The Renaissance

Humanism in Renaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement of the renaissance, it was a philosophy based on the idea that the people are rational beings with emphasis on the dignity and the worth of an individual leading to the development of Renaissance many areas of Europe. It was originated during the study of the classical culture, and the emphasis on the Humanism is now given more in a subject known as the humanities or the studia humanities. The disciplines that comes under the humanities are grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry and ethics. It gave emphasis not only on the intellectual development but also on the physical and moral development of an individual. It also stressed on the general responsibility of an individual which

Rather those took participation in humanism were people those were not a part or associated with the Church. They tended to object an educational system which was highly monopolized by the clergy and was oriented to the clerical needs. They were accustomed to ever changing and concrete activities of life and found that the prevailing system was of abstract thoughts and was both irreverent and useless. Humanism reflected a new beginning, a beginning to a new era called Renaissance. The main contribution of humanism in renaissance was based on the concerns of the flexibility and openness to all possibilities of life rather not of the antiquity. Renaissance humanism was based on the unifying features which were beyond the common belief that the society can be improved through a new kind of education which was based on the study of the classics. Humanists applied the ideas if humanism in different fields they were interested differently. Some of them used the rhetoric and Latin prose style while other took interest in the analysis of the ancient text and find the meaning out of it. One of the group gave more emphasis on the improvement of the society while other applied the technique of humanism to study the Bible and other church

Well before the end of the 25th century, the ideas and the interest of the humanists had spread to into much of the parts of the Western Europe. Humanism was not only promoted by the inhabitant scholars of Italy but also by those who traveled to Italy and were influenced by the ideas of the humanism. Amongst them were the English theologian John Colet and a German poet Conrad Celtis.
Northern Humanism has the similar properties as that of the Italian humanism, but it was strongly influenced by the context of the northern part of the Europe. Disregard of that of the Italian humanists the northern humanists did not identify the ancient roman text to be influential and they approached the Middle Ages with more sympathy. They had strong ties with the Christianity as compared to the Italian and were less hostile to scholasticism as compared to that of the Italian