Question
The debate between scholars Paul Kristeller and Eugenio Garin over this worldview was informed by Martin Heidegger’s response to another philosopher regarding this stance. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this position that Heidegger distanced himself from in a letter on it. This is the second philosophical view in the title of a lecture that claimed “existence precedes essence.”
ANSWER: humanism [accept Renaissance humanism; accept “Letter on Humanism” or Über den Humanismus or Existentialism Is a Humanism or L’existentialisme est un humanisme] (Existentialism Is a Humanism is by Jean-Paul Sartre)
[10e] Heidegger criticized humanism from this country as being a revival of Greek civilization. Humanist thinkers from this modern-day country include Pico della Mirandola and a polymath who drew the Vitruvian Man.
ANSWER: Italy [accept Italian Republic or Repubblica Italiana]
[10h] With Kristeller and John Herman Randall Jr., this philosopher edited a book on Renaissance philosophy. This neo-Kantian, who debated Heidegger at Davos (“da-VOSE”), wrote The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms.
ANSWER: Ernst Cassirer (“ka-SEER-ur”) [or Ernst Alfred Cassirer]
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