The Big Ideas and its Break From the Past (Summer Version) by XXX https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h What were some of the things that people believed in during the Renaissance? And how is this time different from the past? en-us 2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC 2023-03-19 12:47:59 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Alarmclock.png What made the Renaissance special? mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327241 This is a quick video that summarizes what is special about the Renaissance and its significance to the History of Western Civilization. 

We will watch this in class, if you have any questions ask me.

Discussion Questions

1, Who are the Medici's?

2, What do the Medici's provide to the many philosophers, artists, thinkers, scientists and others great people of the Renaissance?

3, What was so special about what the Medici's did to help many philosophers, artists, thinkers, scientists and others great people of the Renaissance?

4, The people of the Renaissance looked to the wisdom of the Ancient Greeks and Romans because they believed that this would help them find what in the present?

5, What did the people in the Renaissance use art for?]]> 2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327241 Vision mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327242 The person who made the video said that the people of the Renaissance had vision. He said that a lot of people in Modern Times did not have vision. 

What do you think the maker of the video meant when he said that people in Modern Times did not have vision? 

(Think about the things he said about cities) 
(Think about how people should give money to charity)

What are some of the qualities that a leader should have if he is someone who has "VISION"?]]> 2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327242 Humanism - Read this again, think about how people will change when they start believing in the ideas of Humanism mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327243 It is a belief that people should focus on human potential and achievement. 

People should study and assess things based on reasoning and empirical evidence. For example when people started to read scrolls about Philosophy, science, culture, religion and other topics from the Ancient Greeks and Romans. They read them and assessed these writings based on whether or not they made sense. You do not throw a scroll away just because it is something that is written by a person who was not Christian or that the ideas did not match Christianity and the teaching of the Catholic Church

People became much more interested in studying the Classics and wanted to learn new things and do things in a different way. 

The focus on the potential of the human individual, reason, logic, science and move to secular culture was very radical. 

]]> 2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327243 The Meaning of Life - "Arete" Achieve Excellence in whatever you set out to do in your Life. mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327244
  • Name a famous person that you admire. It has to be a business person, world leader, scientist, writer, singer or inventor. 
  • What are some of the great things that they did?
  • Why do you think they did the things that they did? 
  • What good qualities did these people have that you would want to emulate? 
  • What do many of your teachers, parents and other authority figures tell you to do, so that you will be good?
    • ]]>     2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327244     Giovanni Pico della Mirandola & The Oration on the Dignity of Man mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327245 We will read about Giovanni Pico della Mirandola & The Oration on the Dignity of Man. Pico was a philosopher who lived from 1463 – 1494. He wrote two major books the 900 Thesis and The Oration on the Dignity of Man. In these two books he wrote about free will, the value of the Earthly life, the Dignity of the Individual person and argued that all religions, philosophies do contain some truths and that this is something that people should strive to learn about and understand.  ]]> 2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327245 Humanism & Giovanni Pico della Mirandola vs. the Old Catholic way of looking at life. mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327247 CLASH OF WORLDVIEWS
    • Divine Will vs. Free Will
    • Man is subject to Divine Will vs. Man can change through his own effort.  
    • Live in order to prepare to go to heaven vs. Live to be the best that you can be. 
    • Read the writings of Ancient Greece and Rome and used it to confirm that Christianity is right vs. Read the writings of Ancient Greece and Rome in order to gain useful knowledge. 


    ]]>     2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327247     Secularism - Renaissance vs. Modern Times mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327248 The people in the Renaissance were still very devout Christians. They did not reject religion or Christianity. Many of the great works of Renaissance Art were actually about stories and people from the Holy Bible. The people in the Renaissance believed that it is alright and natural for people to strive for excellence. What they rejected were certain things the Church said about how people should behave in order to be good Christians..  Modern day Secularism tends to reject religion of any kind. ]]> 2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327248 Keywords mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327249 Secularism
    Humanism
    Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
    Faith (Religious)
    Divine Will
    Free Will 
    Chivalry
    Feudal System]]>     2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327249     Greatness & Arete - Middle Ages vs. Renaissance mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327253 In the Middle Ages, there was the Feudal System. For those who were in the Nobility, the ruling class, they were taught that the only work that they should do is to be a warrior. By showing his courage and skill in battle, a nobleman would gain wealth and greatness. This eventually lead to the idea of Chivalry. And if you follow the codes of Chivalry about being a strong, brave, pious and loyal warrior who defends the Church, the weak and the helpless then you get a good reputation and be great.

    Now think about people like Filippo Brunelleschi and the Medici's.  

    1. What are they remembered for? 
    2. How did these men achieve greatness?
    3. The meaning of Arete in the Middle Ages comes from being warrior. In the Renaissance how can a person be 'great'? 
    4. What are some of the ways that a person can achieve Greatness & Arete in Modern times?

    ]]>     2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327253     A Summary of Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man. mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327254 In the Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486), Pico justifies the importance of the human quest for knowledge within a neo-Platonic framework. He writes that after God had created all creatures, God conceived of the desire for another, sentient being who would appreciate all God’s works, but there was no longer any room in the chain of being; all the possible slots from angels to worms had been filled. So, God created man such that he had no specific slot in the chain. Instead, men were capable of learning from and imitating any existing creature. When man philosophizes, he ascends the chain of being towards the angels, and communion with God. When he fails to exercise his intellect, he vegetates. Pico did not fail to notice that this system made philosophers like himself among the most dignified human creatures.

    The idea that men could ascend the chain of being through the exercise of their intellectual capacities was a profound endorsement of the dignity of human existence in this earthly life. The root of this dignity lay in his assertion that only human beings could change themselves through their own free will, whereas all other changes in nature were the result of some outside force acting on whatever it was that underwent change. He observed from history that philosophies and institutions were always in a state of change, making man's capacity for self-transformation the only constant. Coupled with his belief that all of creation constitutes a symbolic reflection of the divinity of God, Pico's philosophies had a profound influence on the arts, helping to elevate writers and painters from their medieval role as mere artisans to the Renaissance ideal of the artist as genius.

    This is from http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Giovanni_Pico_della_Mirandola#Thought_and_Works

    ]]>     2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327254     Discussion Questions mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327255
  • According to Pico how does a person become closer to God in the Chain of Being?
  • What is the only constant in the world according to Pico?
  • What happens when when a man fails to exercise his intellect according to Pico? What are some other words you can use to describe this and can you give two modern day examples of it?
  • Does Pico reject God? You must identify two examples and explain why?Based on what you have read about Pico, what do you think are some things that a man should do in order to achieve Greatness? 
    • ]]>     2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327255     Faith & Christianity mojonathan181 https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327256
  • Christians live their life according to the teachings of Jesus Christ. 
  • If you believe in him and live a good life according to his teachings you will find salvation and eternal life, your soul will live forever in Heaven with God. What would Jesus do? The Priests and Church tells us this...?
  • On Earth there is temptation and this makes you do bad things, thus all Earthly things are sinful. Thus you should live very simply, quietly accept what ever happens to you and live your life. Have faith, things in the afterlife will be better. 
  • Pico and the people in the Renaissance still believe in God, they still have faith. They argue that we should learn to understand and appreciate God's creation using reason, science, philosophy and being able to change our fate. We show our faith in God in this way. 
    • ]]>     2017-07-09 11:56:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mojonathan181/wfaa9e70j68h/wish/178327256