As I prepare to write a post concerning ancient Western civilization, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or last post and might interest you further.
Petrarch and the Renaissance - Machiavelli
What was so brilliant about Petrarch's poems? They were almost self-centered, but they were elegant, beautiful, and were in no way selfish, just untraditional coming from a modern viewer.
According to some during this period, medicine, law, and theology were inferior to the "liberal arts" how true is this?
What is the "happy medium" to enjoy all life has to offer rather than focusing on death, yet to strive for a life without sin and with good faith? What does it mean to appreciate mans' nobility while still holding God up at His highest above all creatures?
Machiavelli taught that morals should not apply to politics, and in turn, that the church should not have any influence on the state. In what ways was he detrimentally wrong?
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