I want to be Human again!

I never thought about the idea that science can be so much of a blessing as so much of a curse. Without science’s development we would be dying of sicknesses that are curable nowadays, our lives wouldn’t be as comfortable without all the technological advances and we wouldn’t know our world as much as we do now. But in the other hand, violence and wars wouldn’t be as bad as they are because there wouldn’t be powerful weapons to easily kill people. It is also interesting to see how when science began to grow and develop religion lost some power. Once people began to discover that phenomenon had a scientific explanation other than a divine one, they began to question their beliefs. Science became a faith, it had the same effect on people like religion previously had. People saw the scientist like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and others as gods. People began to think that they could have all the answers to understand our existence.
The Scientific Revolution originated around the same time as the Renaissance was happening. People showed more interest in educating themselves and became more human, they were ready to grow and were interesting in investigating and discovering new things. Before the Scientific Revolution, the human being was described as a machine, nobody focused in explaining and analyzing the actual “human” side of men. Humanism was another important feature of the Scientific Revolution.
When reading about the Renaissance it didn’t even crossed my mind to think about the influence of humanism in Science. I thought humanism was mainly focused and expressed through visual arts.
I wonder if eventually technology will one more time destroy our human side, it seems to me that little by little we are relying on technology to connect with other people, to create visual arts and increase scientific development. Will humans realize this and have the need of another wave of humanism??

Renaissance

The Renaissance is an amazing period of time. It was the time when people began to realize how important it was to educate themselves and question their own beliefs and knowledge acquired mainly by the government and church’s influence. I loved the part that talks about humanism, especially the part about liberal arts. I always wondered why the term “liberal arts” was used, and I guess I finally got the answer. “The liberal arts are what are studied by free people and in turn are those arts whose studies make one free” (Knox). Having knowledge gives a person power to make decisions and therefore it makes you free.
The Renaissance was a time of change, growth and self expression, artists found in there creations a way to express their feelings, concerns and excitements of that time, and they did it in a beautiful way. The Italian Renaissance served as an example for other countries in Europe to do the same. One of my favorite examples is Spain. In the XVI century Spain’s military activity in Italy brought the Renaissance into the country. The press growth and the Italian Renaissance were the main factors that influenced the beginning of the Spanish Golden Age. The Golden Age is the period of time when the most amazing artistic works in Spain were created, mainly in literature.
I wonder if there is a modern time period that could be compared to the Renaissance. Could we compare this century when all the new technology is being used to create amazing works of art? What would be the main differences between the types of art?