Renaissance is a European ideological and cultural movement that reflects the requirements of the emerging bourgeoisie. In essence, it is an anti-feudal new culture movement initiated by the emerging bourgeoisie in the name of reviving Greek and Roman classical culture.
Second, the main content of the Renaissance:
By promoting ancient Greek culture and ancient Roman culture in the fields of literature, painting, poetry and sculpture, the emerging bourgeoisie opposes the stale preaching preached by the church and takes humanistic spirit as its core content.
Humanism puts forward that man is the center, not God, and affirms the value and dignity of man. It advocates that the purpose of life is to pursue happiness in real life, advocates the liberation of personality, opposes the theological thought of ignorance and superstition, and thinks that man is the creator and master of real life.
Third, the significance of the Renaissance:
1. The Renaissance was the first bourgeois ideological emancipation movement in history.
2. The Renaissance promoted the development of world culture, promoted people's awakening, started the journey of modernization, and made necessary ideological and cultural preparations for the development of capitalism.
The Renaissance mobilized and prepared for the bourgeois revolution.
Renaissance fully affirmed human value and attached importance to human nature, which became a powerful call for people to break through the veil of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance had a great influence on the political, scientific, economic, philosophical and theological world outlook at that time. It is a revolutionary storm in the ideological field of the emerging bourgeoisie, also known as the "giant era".
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Three periods of the Renaissance:
1. The first period of the Renaissance was from14th century to15th century.
The basic content of the first period is the great achievements of humanities education literature, poetry and history, which is characterized by the replacement of Christian theology by humanities. Educators, writers and historians in the early Renaissance were mostly outstanding scholars.
Thinkers in the early Renaissance criticized feudal autocracy and scholasticism, which fundamentally shook the foundation of the whole theological world outlook and promoted the rebirth of bourgeois literature, art and philosophy. Advocating humanity and opposing Shinto; Advocating human rights and opposing theocracy; Advocate individual liberation and oppose asceticism.
Second, the period from the middle of15th century to the end of16th century was the second period of the Renaissance.
In the second period of Renaissance, painting art, drama and politics were the main contents, characterized by the overall prosperity of the New Culture Movement, which extended from the border of Italy to European countries. The new culture shows great creativity, especially in plastic arts.
The new literary drama shows national consciousness, love for the motherland, and desire for national unity and strength; Some political thinkers put forward the theory of utopian socialism.
Third, the period from the early17th century to the middle17th century is the third period of the Renaissance.
The most outstanding achievement in the third period of Renaissance was the birth of natural science and philosophy, which made great progress in science and technology. The outstanding feature is that the revolution of astronomy and the establishment of experimental science make the old philosophy become a new philosophy.
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