Thank you so much for also including the historical context of what it was like being a human during that time. Since I am a high school dropout I missed out on learning world history and it has gotten in the way of me understanding some aspects of philosophy
History repeats very often than we think of. The more we know about the past, the more we can prepare for the future. Thanks, Stephen for such an amazing work🙏
The concept of the "Dark Ages" was developed by a man who had been a priest. ie If his concept was based on ignorance, it was a churchly ignorance. The man was Petrarch, whose "rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism" [Wikipedia]. A rediscovery that occurred a year before the Black Death started. Erasmus strikes me as being someone wearing a red Spartan cloak, ie one which doesn't show the blood when struck by an enemy. In this case hiding the fact that christianity is quite unreasonable, while advising the church hierarchy to refrain from the more obviously bad sides to their religious system.
ep22 - Blast off to the Renaissance! Renaissance / Dark age - Means rebirth - For a rebirth, there must first be a death, which can be figurative - The renaissance constituted the death of nearly 30-60% of the entire population of Europe - What died was an entire way of life - Modern connotation of renaissance is rather positive - Catalyst between modern times and the medieval ages - Middle ages - called the dark ages - How do you define human progress? - We live in a privileged time - What metric is used to describe human progress? - The dark age was not entirely dark - Refers to a period of intellectual stagnation and regression - Historians don't like the term dark age or renaissance because it describes the history of the period only from an intellectual perspective High middle ages - Other advancements in agriculture - Beautiful gothic cathedral - Feeling of unification by one thing, i.e the church - the change from prosperity to widespread unrest led to what is known as the renaissance - Overpopulated at the time - Something happened that changed everything The black Death - No one knows its origin - Said to have originated somewhere in the plains of Asia - Travelled along the silk road - Eventually found its way to Crimea where it embedded itself in fleas to the port of Western Europe - Bubonic plague was just one form of the black death - Also the Pneumonic plague, Septicemic plague - Estimated 400m people were killed - This created change - Everyone adopted the cruel policy of avoiding the sick and everything belonging to them - Everyone started thinking individualistically - We rely on others for their part and they rely on us to do our part and this is what makes up society. Society is a group effort - Back agriculture as the main source of work - With 60% of the population death agriculture became difficult - Peasants became valuable - This collapsed agriculture - Led to a wage freeze - Led to peasants banned to together to overthrow the government - Started as a population crisis quickly turned into an economic crisis that then turned into a political crisis - Paradigm shift on a large scale Erasmus - Wrote his most influential work right during the years leading up to the protestants - He was a humanist, broad category that looks at the lens of what it means to be human than to be a byproduct of what it means to be a supernatural being - emphasized moving away from the scholastic approach and towards earlier teaching of Greeks and Romans - Erasmus symbolizes this new intellectual plague that's moving across Europe - In the times of Erasmus, religion was not synonymous with faith as it is seen nowadays - As the reformation began the church and the leadership of the church was seen as increasingly corrupt and evil - Erasmus thought the mixing of philosophy with religion was not a noble pursuit - Thought this was the reason why everything was so wrong - Opposed to the entire intellectual tradition of scholasticism as a whole - All these are a byproduct of the relationship between philosophy and religion - The true point was just to love one another - True spirituality is something very personal between God and the individual - Erasmus had to problem with what religion had become and philosophy for stating that the way to be happy is by finding a reason or getting to the bottom of things - Ignorance is not misery, it is only misery if we live in folly, illusion, deception, and ignorance, but it is human - We are born ignorant to these things - When we grow up, we don't magically know everything there is to know - Ignorance is bliss - Knowledge only complicates things - keys to happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is
I can see how a "black swan" event like the Great Plague would revolutionize the world. Our time is coming as well. (What is the Great Reset but such an event--except this one is man made.)
“The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is”- Erasmus
Thanks for that Stephen❤️
The connection of the Black Death to the Renaissance never really resignated with me until now.
Just deleted my comment because he covered it later. I wrote too soon. 😊
Thank you so much for also including the historical context of what it was like being a human during that time. Since I am a high school dropout I missed out on learning world history and it has gotten in the way of me understanding some aspects of philosophy
History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme.
this video have some powerful 2020 energy
Indeed lol
2021 we still up to this
History repeats very often than we think of. The more we know about the past, the more we can prepare for the future. Thanks, Stephen for such an amazing work🙏
this episode sure aged interestingly, had no idea black death originated from Asia too
The concept of the "Dark Ages" was developed by a man who had been a priest. ie If his concept was based on ignorance, it was a churchly ignorance. The man was Petrarch, whose "rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century Italian Renaissance and the founding of Renaissance humanism" [Wikipedia]. A rediscovery that occurred a year before the Black Death started.
Erasmus strikes me as being someone wearing a red Spartan cloak, ie one which doesn't show the blood when struck by an enemy. In this case hiding the fact that christianity is quite unreasonable, while advising the church hierarchy to refrain from the more obviously bad sides to their religious system.
Nós esperávamos os teus primeiros vídeos retornarem. Obrigado por upar-los.
ep22 - Blast off to the Renaissance!
Renaissance / Dark age
- Means rebirth
- For a rebirth, there must first be a death, which can be figurative
- The renaissance constituted the death of nearly 30-60% of the entire population of Europe
- What died was an entire way of life
- Modern connotation of renaissance is rather positive
- Catalyst between modern times and the medieval ages
- Middle ages - called the dark ages
- How do you define human progress?
- We live in a privileged time
- What metric is used to describe human progress?
- The dark age was not entirely dark
- Refers to a period of intellectual stagnation and regression
- Historians don't like the term dark age or renaissance because it describes the history of the period only from an intellectual perspective
High middle ages
- Other advancements in agriculture
- Beautiful gothic cathedral
- Feeling of unification by one thing, i.e the church
- the change from prosperity to widespread unrest led to what is known as the renaissance
- Overpopulated at the time
- Something happened that changed everything
The black Death
- No one knows its origin
- Said to have originated somewhere in the plains of Asia
- Travelled along the silk road
- Eventually found its way to Crimea where it embedded itself in fleas to the port of Western Europe
- Bubonic plague was just one form of the black death
- Also the Pneumonic plague, Septicemic plague
- Estimated 400m people were killed
- This created change
- Everyone adopted the cruel policy of avoiding the sick and everything belonging to them
- Everyone started thinking individualistically
- We rely on others for their part and they rely on us to do our part and this is what makes up society. Society is a group effort
- Back agriculture as the main source of work
- With 60% of the population death agriculture became difficult
- Peasants became valuable
- This collapsed agriculture
- Led to a wage freeze
- Led to peasants banned to together to overthrow the government
- Started as a population crisis quickly turned into an economic crisis that then turned into a political crisis
- Paradigm shift on a large scale
Erasmus
- Wrote his most influential work right during the years leading up to the protestants
- He was a humanist, broad category that looks at the lens of what it means to be human than to be a byproduct of what it means to be a supernatural being
- emphasized moving away from the scholastic approach and towards earlier teaching of Greeks and Romans
- Erasmus symbolizes this new intellectual plague that's moving across Europe
- In the times of Erasmus, religion was not synonymous with faith as it is seen nowadays
- As the reformation began the church and the leadership of the church was seen as increasingly corrupt and evil
- Erasmus thought the mixing of philosophy with religion was not a noble pursuit
- Thought this was the reason why everything was so wrong
- Opposed to the entire intellectual tradition of scholasticism as a whole
- All these are a byproduct of the relationship between philosophy and religion
- The true point was just to love one another
- True spirituality is something very personal between God and the individual
- Erasmus had to problem with what religion had become and philosophy for stating that the way to be happy is by finding a reason or getting to the bottom of things
- Ignorance is not misery, it is only misery if we live in folly, illusion, deception, and ignorance, but it is human
- We are born ignorant to these things
- When we grow up, we don't magically know everything there is to know
- Ignorance is bliss
- Knowledge only complicates things
- keys to happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is
This episode be hitting different after the covid-19 pandemic.
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Kjesi agan:DD
#Rona2020
I can see how a "black swan" event like the Great Plague would revolutionize the world. Our time is coming as well. (What is the Great Reset but such an event--except this one is man made.)
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