Secondly, the Renaissance broke the situation that religious mysticism dominated the whole country, effectively promoted and influenced the religious reform movement, and provided an important boost for this movement. Renaissance advocated attaching importance to secular life and opposing authority, which aroused contemporary people's doubts and antipathy to the Catholic Church and theology. Renaissance humanists satirized and exposed the corruption and ugliness of the Catholic church through literature, art and other forms.
Third, the feudal privilege was denied. In the Middle Ages, feudal privileges were granted and the concept of family status was deeply rooted. Renaissance made these things lose the weight of the measure of people in the past. People's nobility has been given a new connotation. Petrarch said: "True nobility is not innate, but self-made." In the social life of Italy at that time, talent, means and money replaced birth, and everyone from any birth climbed the high-level ladder of society.
Fourth, get rid of superstition and emancipate the mind. The Renaissance restored rationality, dignity and the value of thinking. Advocating scientific methods and experiments, and proposing that "knowledge is power" have created a new atmosphere for exploring people and the real world. People firmly believe in their eyes and brains, and believe that experiments and experience are reliable sources of knowledge. This realistic attitude, way of thinking and scientific method laid a solid foundation for the great development of natural science from 17 to 19 century.
Fifth, during the Renaissance, a large number of fascinating and exquisite works of art and literary masterpieces were created, which became priceless treasures in the treasure house of human art. The medieval biblical legends flooded the art world, suffocating the life of art. The Renaissance not only turned the Virgin Mary into a human woman (Raphael), but also turned the image into a eulogy of the human body and began a direct description of daily life and real people. Anatomy, perspective and other sciences are also combined with art for the first time. Modern realistic art in western Europe began at that time.
This extensive and lasting ideological and cultural movement broke through the shackles of feudal autocracy and religious theology in the ideological field, liberated people's minds, promoted the prosperity of European cultural and ideological fields, and laid the ideological and cultural foundation for the emergence of European capitalist society.
Knowledge makes us look around the world and bid farewell to the wild.
From eating and drinking like animals in ancient times to today's high civilization and knowledge explosion, knowledge radiates great light with every leap of human society. The progress of knowledge inspires human mind, pushes the wheel of history and promotes human civilization. No matter how dark the sky is, the lamps and candles of knowledge are always high and indomitable, leading mankind into the palace of civilization step by step.
Knowledge is tirelessly changing people's production and lifestyle at the speed of geometric progression multiplication, and knowledge makes people move from one dream to another. If human beings are eagles spreading their wings and flying, knowledge is human wings; If humans are invited to travel in space, knowledge is the propulsion module of the spacecraft.
Knowledge is a subtle force. Knowledge adds meaningful connotation to people.
Bacon said: "knowledge is power, which depends not only on its own value, but also on whether it is spread and the depth and breadth of its spread." This shows the importance of cultural exchange.