The Essential Santayana: Selected Writings

摘要

Apart from him, some philosophers of science claim that Renaissance humanism delayed the advent of modern science by breaking the scholastic tradition of exact logic and rigorous demonstration. Santayana tells us, "The humanists of the Renaissance were lovers of Greek and good Latin, scornful of all that was crabbed, technical, or fanatical; they were pleasantly learned men, free from any kind of austerity, who, without quarreling with Christian dogma, treated it humanely, and partly by tolerance and partly by ridicule hoped to neutralize all its metaphysical and moral rigor."