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The Renaissance is regarded as one of the most significant times in human history, reflecting a major transition from the medieval to the modern world. This period, which lasted roughly from the middle of the fourteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth century, was one of intense, all-encompassing, and, in many respects, unique philosophical activity.
The essential assumption of the Renaissance movement was that the ruins of ancient antiquity constituted an irreplaceable source of perfection to which degraded and decadent modern times may turn in order to heal the damage caused by the fall of the Roman Empire. It was often assumed that God had given a single unified truth to humanity and that the works of ancient philosophers had preserved part of this original deposit of divine wisdom. This idea not only laid the foundation for a scholarly culture that was centered on ancient texts and their interpretation, but also fostered an approach to textual interpretation that strove to harmonize and reconcile divergent philosophical accounts. One of the most prominent characteristics of Renaissance philosophy, fueled by newly available texts, was a growing interest in primary sources of Greek and Roman thinking that were previously unknown or underutilized. The revived study of Neoplatonism, Stoicism, Epicureanism, and Skepticism undermined faith in Aristotelian philosophy's universal truth and broadened the philosophical scope, giving a fertile ground for the slow emergence of modern science and philosophy.[1]