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At the Dawn of a New Consciousness: Art, Philosophy and the Birth of the Modern World

At the Dawn of a New Consciousness: Art, Philosophy and the Birth of the Modern World

Nesfield-Cookson, Bernard

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ISBN10: 1906999112
ISBN13: 9781906999117
Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing
Published: Apr 19 2010
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
The Italian Renaissance is considered by many to mark the beginning of the modern age. The name itself (literally rebirth) accurately expresses the innovation that took place during that period. Renaissance thinkers took a vital interest in history, literature, and the arts, focusing on the human world as much as, if not more than, that of God. The rapid development of the arts and sciences reflected their study of the visible, physical world in all its three-dimensional glory.

The source of these new impulses, says the author, can be found in what Rudolf Steiner calls the birth of the consciousness soul--the faculty for objective self-awareness. Instead of a primarily inward-looking consciousness, people began looking outward with greater intensity, observing the world around them in detail. With greater conscious of their separate being, people of the Renaissance began to study the phenomena of the world of nature from an individual, personal perspective.

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