According to the medieval world view, Nature was conceived [ kavandatud ] to be kept going from moment to moment by a miracle which was always new and forever renewed. It was God who ordered the universe through these miracles. This entire scheme depended not only upon God, but upon the individual's absolute and unwavering faith in God. If God pronounced it to be so, then it must be so. But after 1350, let's say, by the time of Petrarch (13041374), some men became more interested in the form of the miracle. Knowing that the cosmos was of divine origin and moved according to the will of God, some men embraced that Faustian spirit that wanted to know more. It was not enough to simply accept the existence of miracles the miracles now had to be explained. These men wanted to know what order, to what hierarchy the miracle conformed. And this brings us to the medieval view of cosmological order. According to the intellectual
seletamine. Ajaloolase Jacob Burckhardti sõnul avastas renessanss indiviidi ja rajas sellega tänapäeva individualismi. Linnastumine: Inimene on sündinud selleks, et elada tsiviliseeritud ja kultiveeritud elu. Linn on selleks lavaks, kus seda saab teoks teha. Parimad esinejad küünivad selles teatraalses etenduses jumaliku täiuseni. Leon Battista Alberti (14041472) filosoofia materialiseerumine arhitektuuris. Aristotelese autoriteedi mittetunnustamine. Francesco Petrarca (13041374). Inspiratsioon: piibel, Püha Augustinus ja Cicero. Aristotelese filosoofiast tuleb loobuda mitte ainult selle pärast, et see on vale (mida ta kindlasti on), vaid eelkõige sellepärast, et ta ei tee inimest paremaks ja õnnelikumaks: Üks asi on teada, teine armastada; üks asi on mõiste, teine tahta. vaenulikkus filosoofiliste arutluste suhtes; kahtlus intellektuaalse vabaduse vajalikkuses (kus igaüks võib meeldida vulgaarsele
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