Food For Thought - Part 2
Food For Thought - Part 2 Renaissance Modern western historians were apt thus to speak of the “Renaissance” under the spell of the same egocentric illusion that has prompted Homo Terricola in allsocieties and ages to speak of the “earth”, the “Moon”,the “Sun”. Such facons de parler were , of course, as unscientific as they were insidious, as insidious as they were subjective. They were expressions of an unsophisticated observer’s uncritical assumption that his own ego is the center of the Universe and that panorama seen from his personal angle of vision is a true picture of the Universe as it really is. ( A Study of History- Arnold Toynbee- Vol.ix-p.1) As soon as we have thus brought all the relevant phenomena in the view, we become aware that ,in using the word Renaissance as a proper nam...
