What role did humanism play in the renaissance?

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Answer 1

The spread of Humanism allowed for people to open their eyes and minds to new ideas.

Before that point, during the Dark Ages, the Catholic church kept people from exploring new forms of knowledge and generally promoted ignorance.

The spread of Humanism made the Renaissance possible.

Answer 2

The over-riding goal of humanists, who may be said to have valued the witnesses of reason and the evidence of the senses in reaching the truth over the Christian values of humility, introspection, and passivity, or "meekness" that had dominated European thought in the previous centuries, was to become eloquent in rhetoric. Beauty, a popular topic, was held to represent a deep inner virtue and value, and an essential element in the path towards God. The humanist movement developed from the rediscovery by European scholars of many Latin and Greek texts.