Global Works and Society in a Changing World

Global Works and Society in a Changing World

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1) What is the humanist and Renaissance conception of human being? Explain your answer with references to the ideas of Petrarch, Valla, More or Erasmus (choose at least two of them) from their books we read in class.
2) What is the project of the Reform movement? Include ideas from the books we read from Valla, Luther and More. You may also consider ideas from mystical schools we studied in class.
3) How do Valla, Erasmus and More (choose any two out of the three authors) differ in their approaches to the Greek/Roman, Judeo-Christian, and the medieval past of the European civilization? Discuss critically and with examples from the texts read for class.
4) Analyze the ideas of the two of the following authors Valla, Luther and More on divine grace and works. What is their relationship? How does human activity relate to cosmological necessity or the divine order? Discuss critically.
5) If modernity is, among other things, about the human subject, the individual and secularism, what are some modern elements in two of the authors we read so far in class (Petrarch, Valla, Erasmus, and More)?

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