“For thousands of years, humans believed that authority came from the gods, then during the modern era, Humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people.” Yuval Noah Harari the Jewish historian once said. During the Medieval(Dark) age humans thoughts were centralized in religion because the churches had the power which made the feudal society to depend on religion rather than true human value. However, during the bubonic plague pandemic humans started to question towards the religion which eventually led to the rise of the Human centralized thinking of seeking what we really are as a human being which is “Humanism”. Humanism is a movement emerged during the Renaissance (14th century) with rebirth of the classical ideas from the ancient Greek and Roman empire of seeking true meaning of ideas without religious influence. Therefore, this emerged movement influenced many parts of the society during the Renaissance.  Firstly, it influenced the science due to the crucial belief of observing, analyzing, and categorizing. This belief had extreme influence since it made scientists to think more logically and clearly which made great science discovery of the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus proposing that the solar system was heliocentric. Therefore, Humanism made great contribution of increasing confidence of humans themselves figuring out solutions towards countless phenomenons in the world we are living. Secondly, Humanism influenced the Art during the Renaissance with the Humanist idea of figuring out what we really are as a human being. The artists were keen to capture this reality human being, as an example Leonardo Da Vinci portrayed vitruvian man and proposed that human body could fit in a circle. Which shows one of the Renaissance artist’s curiosity of figuring out the human body. Therefore, the Humanism have influenced Renaissance art with the crucial belief of finding us human beings in the reality. Thirdly, Humanism influenced us the human being and the society during the Renaissance. Because Humanism emphasized importance of human dignity and values and promoted the idea of a society where individuals could flourish through work, creativity, and political participation. Which is focusing on the individual human being their value and characteristics furthermore, the role of individual’s role in society. Therefore, Humanism shaped the individual human beings thoughts and ideas as well as the role of the individual. Lastly, since I mentioned about the shift in thinking from religion to Human it influenced the Religion during the Renaissance. Human centralized thinking were available due to the Humanism however, Humanism was not the opposition of the religion however, it led to ideas such as Individualism which is advanced idea of Human centralized idea which still had great impact to the religion. Therefore, the Humanism mainly had influence of thinking of humans without reference to the religion.

                 Furthermore, while working on my infographic, I was able to find my hidden ego with Humanist mindset. This is the reasons why I am a pure Humanist. Firstly, I am a kind of person who care more about logical and critical thinking instead of religious and unclear thinking. Which connects to the belief of the humanist of observing, analyzing, and categorizing problems in the real life. Furthermore, this have shaped many parts of my life which is not depending on to unclear and less trustful things that is surrounding me. Instead I believed in datas, statistics that are trustful and unchangeable which I can rely on and believed in this which gave me an extreme advantage of stable and steady life. Secondly, I value individualism which is identical to Humanists. I always had idea of creating my own route that does not depend on anyone even the closest person to me. Furthermore, throughout the research I was able to find out that this is an Individualist belief of the tendency for a person to act with out reference to anything in the matter of value and thought. In addition, the Individualism have shaped my entire life because, that became part of my value as a human being which is going towards my true density without depending on anyone. Therefore, because of these two major elements that influenced my life I was able to figure out that I am a pure Humanist with Humanism in my ego.

Work Cited

Cartwright, Mark. “Renaissance Humanism.” World History Encyclopedia,        https://www.worldhistory.org#organization, 20 Oct. 2024, www.worldhistory.org/Renaissance_Humanism/. 

Popova, Maria. “Da Vinci’s Ghost: How the Vitruvian Man Came to Be.” The Marginalian, 2 Sept. 2016, www.themarginalian.org/2012/02/08/da-vincis-ghost.