1.2 THE HUMANITIES IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION Flashcards
Humanitas
Humanity
Panofsky
Art as a Humanistic Discipline
Divinitas
Gods in the state of perfection in heaven
Humanitas
People in the state of culture in civilized society
Barbaritas
Savages in the state of nature for survival
Ancient (800 BC)
Cosmocentric View
Protagoras
Man is the measure of all things
Geocentrism
Man is at the center of the universe
Medieval (300 AD)
Theocentric view
- Scholasticism
- Man is at?
Man is created in the image of God
Man is at the center of creation
Renaissance (1400)
Anthropocentric view
Humanism
Nothing is more wonderful than man
Modern (1600)
Scientific-technocentric view
Modern
a.
b.
Man is a part of nature
Man is dehumanized during industrial age
Post-Modern (1960)
Eclectic view
Pots-modern
a
Man is a piece of everything
Ancient example
Almogest by Ptolemy
Medieval example
Escorial Beatus “Illuminated Manuscript, 10th Century”
Renaissance example
Leonardo da Vinci “Vitruvian Man, 1490”
Michaelangelo “the creation of man 1512”
Copernicus “on the revolution of celestial bodies 1542”
Modern example
The evolution of man
The anatomy lesson of Dr. Turf (1642) by Rembrandt
Gadgets by Legaspi
Post-modern example
Poleteismo by Medio cruz