![]() ![]() ![]() Both established as well as younger European scholars explore different literary, philosophical, ethical, aesthetic, religious, cultural, and social aspects of humanism. This is the topic to which this particular volume is primarily dedicated. It is difficult to imagine any research project ignoring its variety. In this perspective, humanism is one of the most significant and complex phenomena in European cultural history. Moreover, its peak, the Renaissance, is defined by its artistic achievements, which are nevertheless founded in the sphere of intellect and in its new understanding of being human. ![]() In its narrower sense, the origins of humanism are marked by the return of Western Europe to the forgotten sources of its cultural identity, hidden in classical antiquity. In this sense, it can be seen as a universal human phenomenon. If one sees humanistic thought as philosophical anthropology, its character is understandably transcultural, one that can appear anywhere in history, and is always radical: it reaches the very foundations of culture and civilization. On the other hand, it is highly complex and practically impossible to delimit. The question of a human person, which is the starting point of every humanism, is the initial, fundamental, almost inevitable question of every culture.
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