Please talk about the social impact of the Renaissance?

1. Main influence

The Renaissance was the first bourgeois ideological emancipation movement in history. It promoted the development of world culture, promoted the awakening of the people, and made necessary ideological and cultural preparations for the development of capitalism. Made ideological mobilization and preparation for the bourgeois revolution.

2. Social Impact

Primitive accumulation of capital: As an ideological emancipation movement that promoted the emerging bourgeois culture, the Renaissance movement contributed to the early development of capitalism in the process of dissemination. It laid a solid foundation and at the same time accumulated primitive wealth for the early bourgeoisie. Extended information

The works of the Renaissance embody humanistic ideas: they advocate the liberation of individuality and oppose the asceticism and religious views of the Middle Ages; they advocate scientific culture, oppose obscurantism, and get rid of the church's shackles on people's thoughts. ; Affirm human rights, oppose theocracy, and abandon all authority and traditional dogma as the basis of theology and scholastic philosophy.

Supporting centralized power and opposing feudal separatism are the main ideas of humanism. Among them, representative works include: Dante's "Divine Comedy", Boccaccio's "Decameron", Machiavelli's "The Prince", Rabelais's "Gigant", etc.

Renaissance art celebrated the beauty of the human body, advocating that the proportions of the human body are the most harmonious in the world, and applied them to architecture. A series of paintings, although still with religious stories as the theme, Sculptures, but showing scenes of ordinary people, pulling gods to the ground.

Humanists began to study the Bible using the methods of studying classical literature and translated the Bible into the native language, which led to the rise of the religious reform movement.

Humanism praises the world and despises heaven, flaunts rationality to replace divine revelation, affirms that "man" is the creator and enjoyer of life in this world, requires literature and art to express people's thoughts and feelings, science to benefit people, and education To develop human personality requires liberating human thoughts, feelings and wisdom from the shackles of theology. It advocates freedom of individuality and therefore plays a very progressive role in historical development.

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