The Renaissance: Revolution or Evolution?
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The Renaissance
Revolution or Evolution?
Conclusion
Why not Evolution?
The renaissance was revolutionary because it was a forcible overthrow of social order in favour of a new system. New ideas and thoughts were put in place and researched rather than being iterations of preexisting concepts.
Definition of evolution: the development of something through influence of a prior thought
Beliefs were being challenged rather than derived of former beliefs
-Evolution of thought allows for no room for controversy as the thought is iterated from prior beliefs
-The church held most of the power and interfered with and changes of thoughts or ideas that challenged the church and its teachings (Copernicus)
Revolution?
What Was the Renaissance?
Definition of revolution: a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system
Revolutionary because it challenged old thoughts and beliefs such as:
-Geocentrism/Heleocentrism
-Scientific method
-Deductive/Inductive approach
-Anatomy (William Harvey)
The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome