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Free Download Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt By Christopher S. Celenza, Kenneth Gouwens (eds.)
2006 | 432 Pages | ISBN: 9004149074 | PDF | 19 MB
This volume comprises original contributions from 17 scholars whose work and careers Ronald Witt has touched in myriad ways. Intellectual, social, and political historians, a historian of philosophy and an art historian: specialists in various temporal and geographical regions of the Renaissance world here address specific topics reflecting some of the major themes that have woven their way through Ronald Witt’s intellectual cursus. While some essays offer fresh readings of canonical texts and explore previously unnoticed lines of filiation among them, others present "discoveries," including a hitherto "lost" text and overlooked manuscripts that are here edited for the first time. Engagement with little-known material reflects another of Witt’s distinguishing characteristics: a passion for original sources. The essays are gathered under three rubrics: "Politics and the Revival of Antiquity"; "Humanism, Religion, and Moral Philosophy"; and "Erudition and Innovation.&quot

Free Download Mihai Spariosu, "Exploring Humanity – Intercultural Perspectives on Humanism"
English | 2012 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 3847100165 | PDF | 2,7 mb
The old humanistic model, aiming at universalism, ecumenism, and the globalization of various Western systems of values and beliefs, is no longer adequate – even if it pleads for an ever-wider inclusion of other cultural perspectives and for intercultural dialogue. In contrast, it would be wise to retain a number of its assumptions and practices – which it incidentally shares with humanistic models outside the Western world. We must now reconsider and remap it in terms of a larger, global reference frame. This anthology does just that, thus contributing to a new field of study and practice that could be called intercultural humanism.

Free Download Narrative Humanism : Kindness and Complexity in Fiction and Film
by Wyatt Moss-Wellington
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1474454313 | 257 Pages | True PDF | 1.68 MB

Free Download Graham James McAleer, "The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition"
English | ISBN: 0268207429 | 2023 | 314 pages | EPUB | 750 KB

Free Download Barry Taylor and Alejandro Coroleu, "Humanism and Christian Letters in Early Modern Iberia "
English | ISBN: 1443822272 | 2010 | 225 pages | PDF | 964 KB
Even though humanism derived its literary, moral and educational predilections from ancient Greek and Roman models, it was never an inherently secular movement and it soon turned to religious questions. Humanists were of course brought up with Christian beliefs, regarded the Bible as a fundamental text, and many of them were members of the clergy, either regular or secular. While their importance as religious sources was undiminished, biblical and patristic texts came also to be read for their literary value. Renaissance authors who aspired to be poetae christianissimi naturally looked to the Latin Fathers who reconciled classical and Christian views of life, and presented them in an elegant manner. The essays offered in this volume examine the influence of Christian Latin literature, whether biblical, patristic, scholastic or humanistic, upon the Latin and vernacular letters of the Iberian Peninsula in the period 1480 to 1630. The contributions have been organized into three thematically coherent groups, dealing with transmission, adaptation, and visual representation. Contrary to most studies on the Iberian literature of the period in which practically no essays are devoted to texts other than in Spanish, this volume successfully accommodates authors writing in Portuguese and Catalan. Likewise, a significant part of the pieces presented here is concerned with literary texts written in Latin. This collection of essays therefore reflects the varieties of relationship between the Peninsular vernaculars and the continuing tradition of Latin letters. Moreover, it shows how the interests and preoccupations of the better-known authors of the Iberian Renaissance were also shared by contemporary figures whose choice of language may have resulted in their exclusion from the canon.

Free Download Introduction to Digital Humanism: A Textbook
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031453034 | 650 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 41 MB
The book is organized in three parts: Part I "Background" provides the multidisciplinary background needed to understand digital humanism in its philosophical, cultural, technological, historical, social, and economic dimensions. The goal is to present the necessary knowledge upon which an effective interdisciplinary discourse on digital humanism can be founded. Part II "Digital Humanism – a System’s View" focuses on an in-depth presentation and discussion of the main digital humanism concerns arising in current digital systems. The goal of this part is to make readers aware and sensitive to these issues, including e.g. the control and autonomy of AI systems, privacy and security, and the role of governance. Part III "Critical and Societal Issues of Digital Systems" delves into critical societal issues raised by advances of digital technologies. While the public debate in the past has often focused on them separately, especially when they became visible through sensational events the aim here is to shed light on the entire landscape and show their interconnected relationships. This includes issues such as AI and ethics, fairness and bias, privacy and surveillance, platform power and democracy.

Free Download Humanism in Trans-civilizational Perspectives:
Relational Subjectivity and Social Ethics in Classical Chinese Philosophy
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031375173 | 359 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB

Free Download Katherine Eggert, "Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England"
English | 2015 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 081222485X, 0812247515 | EPUB | 4,6 mb
"Disknowledge": knowing something isn’t true, but believing it anyway. In Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Even as the shortcomings of Renaissance humanism became plain to see, many intellectuals of the age had little choice but to treat their familiar knowledge systems as though they still held. Humanism thus came to share the status of alchemy: a way of thinking simultaneously productive and suspect, reasonable and wrongheaded.

Free Download Essays in Humanism by Albert Einstein, David Rockefeller Jr., Audible Studios
English | 2013 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B00AIXAVPI | M4B@64 Kbps | Duration: 5:13 h | 142 Mb
An inspiring collection of the great thinker’s views on a rapidly changing world.
Nuclear proliferation, Zionism, and the global economy are just a few of the insightful and surprisingly prescient topics scientist Albert Einstein discusses in this volume of collected essays from between 1931 and 1950. Written with a clear voice and a thoughtful perspective on the effects of science, economics, and politics in daily life, Einstein’s writings provide an intriguing view inside the mind of a genius addressing the philosophical challenges presented during the turbulence of the Great Depression, the Second World War, and the dawn of the Cold War.