General Vocab
This term is used to describe education that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings utilizing critical thinking & evidence
Humanism
This is a process of extracting physical truths through testing, observation, and repeatability
Scientific Method
These two Renaissance thinkers wrote about Christianity as a guiding moral philosophy not a stern set of rules and corruption in the Catholic Church questioning the Church itself and its power.
Erasmus and Thomas More
This intellectual of the Scientific Revolution developed the Heliocentric Model asserting that Earth was not the center of the universe
Copernicus
Often scene as a symptom of corruption this practice was rampant in the Catholic Church throughout the middle ages leading to officials hiring and appointing family members over other qualified candidates
Nepotism
This movement taking place in Germany, France, & England represents an emphasis on regular human life and religious themes (mostly personal relationships with God)
Northern Renaissance
Renaissance thinker focusing on critiquing government systems believing ruling as a just and moral Christian was ineffective arguing that a ruler should rather use whatever means necessary to obtain and maintain a kingdom
Niccolo Machiavelli
This intellectual discovered that Aristotle’s theory that heavy objects fall faster was wrong; his observations found that, minus resistance, all objects fall at the same speed
Galileo
Idea which emerged in the Renaissance this principle advocates the separation of the state (Government) from religious institutions (Church).
Secularism
Type of logic developed by Francis Bacon focused on using evidence, patterns, and observations supply strong evidence for the truth
Inductive Reasoning
This figure wrote The Decameron, a compilation of stories about different individuals faced with moral dilemmas everyday people have to deal rather than being perfect or heroic
Giovanni Boccaccio
This intellectual established a set of laws for the universe based on testing/mathematics and designed/developed calculus which allowed mathematicians to solve far more complex problems
Isaac Newton
Ideology that advocated people should seek a well-rounded education, but more importantly they should be involved in the community through voting, discussing issues and reforms.
Civic Humanism
Beginning in the late Renaissance this was a new movement of proving what is true, and using new inventions to help accomplish that
The Scientific Revolution
This Classical Christian writer work inspired Renaissance thinkers to focus on an individual spiritual life and relationship with God
St. Augustine
This figure defined Civic Humanism advocating for proactivity in ones community emphasizing focus on secular life and politics, as well as being involved as a citizen in shaping their own world
Leonardo Bruni
This term represents a foundational pillar of Greco-Roman Logic advocating doubt and question things previously accepted as ‘true’
Skepticism
Type of logic developed by Rene Descartes focused on using logical deduction to make a certain, logical conclusion.
Deductive Reasoning
An influential intellectual who believed the Church, and the pope, should not be involved in European politics, laws, taxes, lands instead advocating a strong, centralized government
Jean Bodin
Double Jeopardy!!!!
This term representing a period of time is defined as the centuries between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance
The Middle Ages