2007-02-13 07:48:35 · 6 answers · asked by I ♥ Big Bang! 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
someone today not in the olden days
2007-02-13 08:07:26 · update #1
Today or back in the day?
Back in the day is easy, Michelangelo, Leonardo, etc.
Today is a little more difficult. Perhaps... Michelangelo, Leonardo, any of the The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Seriously, we dont have any today. We don't appreciate education, the arts and the sciences today like we did then. Right now its all about careers that make the most money and the closest thing to art that most people care about is perfecting the body through plastic surgery.
I hope that the generation of babies being born today are the next renaissance people, and we are the tail end of these dark ages.
2007-02-13 07:54:46 · answer #1 · answered by kittiesandsparklelythings 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
in the literal sector i would definately say Macchiavelli, while in philosophy Copernicus,Galileo and Giordano Bruno.Macchiavelli was extremely innovative when it came to politics.His teachings were definately not classical. He retained that the leader of a country had to be cruel for the collective good of the nation. This is where the classical frase '' the ends justify the means'' comes into focus. Before it was retained that a prince had to be virtuous and curtous as well as profoundly catholic. This is why Macchiavelli was so different:He described the true nature of the prince and the characterics he should have.
So in conclsion Niccolò Macchiavelli is the ideal Renaissance person. This conception was taken from the Roman empire and its ideals. Renaissance means "Rinascimento" or re-birth.It consists in the re-enlightment of the ancient Roman institutions. Macchiavelli idealised the Romans and the Greeks in their classical concept.If other writers of his time mearly limited themselves to re-copying ancient scripts, Macchiavelli perfected them and used their concepts to resolve the crisys period he was currently living. As for Copernicus and Galileo their innovativity consists in the true understanding and knowledge of our solar-system, eventhough Copernicus did not beleive in the infinity of our universe. Giordano Bruno was truely ingenious.He was the one that introduced the theory of relativity that was later realobarated by Einstein. He was not although the first. The ancient Greeks were the the ones that began with the atomits also know as the pluralist phisics. Perhaps Empedocle was the first or mabey Democrito. Either way these theories were later descovered and proved by Galileo and Giordano Bruno.
2007-02-13 16:00:17 · answer #2 · answered by Kikkaz 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well some people will take this as a joke but P. diddy / Puffy/Sean combs and not just for his diverse list of names. he has excelled in several different fields and is always thinking outside of the box. I mean the type of person who would think to merge hip hop and country would have to be a Renaissance person of sorts. But he also has worked in fashion and film as well as a musician and producer. i don't know that he has ventured into anything slightly academic however he knows a good investment when he sees one.
2007-02-13 16:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by slinda 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone who goes through enlightenment of sorts, opens their eyes to new things, explores, experiments, doesn't just blindly accepts what they are told as "truth", looks for the answers to satsify themselves, "thinks outside the box", usually considered "crazy" or ADD.
2007-02-13 15:54:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Leonardo da Vinci, a polymath.
2007-02-13 15:52:50 · answer #5 · answered by Barbara V 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no one on this Planet who Qualify!!!
2007-02-13 15:53:59 · answer #6 · answered by Coolbreeze 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋