TOPIC: The Italian Humanists are credited with developing or preserving several aspects of modern life that we take for granted. Of the topics we have discussed and read, which do you feel has impacted you life the most?
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Something that impacted me education was only for monks and rich men. Everything is about men and their accomplishments and failures and that women were just as good as peasants when it came to studying humanities. The poor were really oppressed because without being educated they were stuck in the same status unlike now where we can get an education and build a life.
ReplyDeleteMarriages in the letter we read the way they sounded more like business arrangement. The parents choose and if no one will have them they lower the dowry. From the text book “Alessandra is looking for a girl from a respectable family, but one of lower status and unable to provide a large dowry.” The difference is really big from having marriages to keep up the human race or the family name whereas now most cultures they can decide who they want to marry.
Maddy
The topic that has impacted me the most was the limited education for women. Women were generally just supposed to get married and basically become a house wife. They weren't supposed to go to school past grammar school and even high school. Their place in the world was to cook and clean and care for their families while the men went to work. Even when girls were deemed a "prodigy" their education was still limited. During the time of the Italian humanists it didn't matter how smart you were if you were a woman no matter what becoming educated was frowned upon. The few women that were allowed to continue their education all the way through college, after they graduated, they couldn't really do anything because the men wouldn't allow a woman in the workforce. It was the way things were certain women would start working, most of them writing and creating their own humanist theories, would end up stopping their writing because they were not being recognized.
ReplyDeletePeople nowadays take their education for granted. Education is at everyone's fingertips whether a male or female. Women back then would have killed to be able to have the education that women have today. Nowadays we dread having to wake up for school and learning when back during the time of the Italian humanists some women would have given up everything in order to have the education that we do now. It's the simple things in life, like education, that we don't realize how lucky we are to have.
The topic that impacted me the most was the different political ideas of Monarchism and Republicism (I probably spelled those worng >_>). Monarchy viewed the common citizen as nothing compared to a monk or priest while republicanism saw all people as equal and argued the downfall of Rome belonged to the emperors not the people.
ReplyDeleteToday pretty much everything runs on a republican/democratic scale. Even though England still has a queen she seems to act as only a figurehead, while the parliment controls most things. Kinda says something about Monarchism doesn't it? :D
P.S. sorry about the lateness :(
I think that the most important aspect of the humanists new approach during the renaissance was not blindly following religion. Though the humanists, like everyone else at the time, believed in god, they also believed in learning from humanity's past mistakes and questioning what one is told. This was unlike what the tradional mindset up to the time was, and because these new philosophies were brought forth, I believe that this led the way and made it possible for minds that came later to have more freedom and creativity, and make it possible for many ideas to come about.
ReplyDeleteI believe that by the humanists questioning society and religion to some extent, they paved the road for agnosticism and atheism, which I believe is responsible for many breakthroughs in science. I think that the humanists fresh new ideas and ways of thinking were key for many great minds that have came afterwords, and responsible for many great aspects of today's society.
-Cory Flohr