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Humanist Lives of Classical Philosophers and the Idea of Renaissance Secularization: Virtue, Rhetoric, and the Orthodox Sources of Unbelief
Renaissance Quarterly Pub Date : 2017-09-28 , DOI: 10.1086/693881
Ada Palmer

Humanists seeking to defend the classics in Christian-dominated Europe often reframed ancient philosophers as virtuous proto-Christians. This is particularly visible in the biographical paratexts written for printed editions of ancient philosophers such as Pythagoras, Epictetus, and Democritus, whose humanist editors’ Christianizing claims grew stronger over time. Pious humanists intended and expected the classics to strengthen and reaffirm Christian orthodoxy, but humanists’ own claims that pre-Christian sages, by the light of reason alone, had deduced the central truths of theology and surpassed Christians in the exercise of virtue inadvertently undermined the necessity of scripture and paved the way for later deism.

中文翻译:

古典哲学家的人文主义生活与文艺复兴世俗化的思想:美德、修辞和不信的正统根源

在基督教占主导地位的欧洲,寻求捍卫经典的人文主义者经常将古代哲学家重新定义为有道德的原始基督教徒。这在为毕达哥拉斯、爱比克泰德和德谟克利特等古代哲学家的印刷版所写的传记副文本中尤为明显,随着时间的推移,他们的人文主义编辑对基督教化的主张越来越强烈。虔诚的人文主义者打算并期望经典能够加强和重申基督教正统观念,但人文主义者自己声称基督教前的圣贤仅凭理性就推断出神学的核心真理并在美德的运用方面超越了基督徒,这无意中破坏了基督教正统观念。圣经的必要性,为后来的自然神论铺平了道路。
更新日期:2017-09-28
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