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The paper discusses how Renaissance Humanism (RH) is not primarily associated with advances in philosophy-thanks, perhaps, to the movement's focus on the arts and refusal to break completely with the teleological ethos of Scholasticism. The paper asserts that RH should nonetheless be considered an important bridge movement in philosophy, particularly in the realm of epistemology; RH's nuanced challenge of Scholastic epistemology accelerated the arrival of the Enlightenment-and, inevitably, the age of modern and post-modern philosophy. This paper focuses on three key RH figures-Petrarch, Galileo, and Pico della Mirandola-as progenitors of Enlightenment Humanism, particularly in the realm of epistemology.

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"Renaissance Humanism (RH) is not primarily associated with advances in philosophy--thanks, perhaps, to the movement's focus on the arts and refusal to break completely with the teleological ethos of Scholasticism. RH should nonetheless be considered an important bridge movement in philosophy, particularly in the realm of epistemology. RH's nuanced challenge of Scholastic epistemology accelerated the arrival of the Enlightenment--and, inevitably, the age of modern and post-modern philosophy. This essay will focus on three key RH figures--Petrarch, Galileo, and Pico della Mirandola--as progenitors of Enlightenment..."

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