PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Renaissance

Current paper · Semantic Scholar

The Copernican revolution was made possible not by some causal, rational or mathematical basis or standard. Rather, it was triggered by some random and arbitrary cultural background such as Heliocentrism during the renaissance. Heliocentrism itself was culturally motivated by some other contingent cultural factors such as perspective in painting and Neolatonism in philosophy.

Reference · Wikidata

scholarly article published in Metascience, vol. 8, no. 1 (1999) (DOI: 10.1007/BF02910917)

Book · DOAB

Shakespeare’s Theater of Judgment makes a case for the social and ethical importance of judgment in politics, law, art, and everyday life. It delves deep into the intellectual culture of Renaissance England and the dynamics of Shakespearean theater to recover a positive, collaborative, and future-oriented understanding of judgment, something largely lacking in contemporary social and philosophical discourse. Present…

Full text · Open Library

Surveys the intellectual background of man from medieval times through the Renaissance to modern times.

Image · DPLA

Summer 2009 issue of Universitas: the magazine of Saint Louis University