the human and the divine

A detailed Summary of the human and the divine

Through out history, as man progressed from a primitive animal to a

"human being" capable of thought and reason, mankind has had to throw

questions about the meaning of our own existence to ourselves. Out of those

trail of thoughts appeared religion, art, and philosophy, the fundamental

process of questioning about existence. Who we are, how we came to be,

where we are going, what the most ideal state is....... All these questions had

to be asked and if not given a definite answer, then at least given some idea

as to how to begin to search for, as humans probed deeper and deeper into

the riddle that we were all born into.

As time passed, the works of many thinkers and artists added up and it

became inevitable for the people who wanted to find some answers to the

ancient question, the question of existence, to trace back to the times of

the older thinkers to get an idea as to what we have been thinking about as

an important source for reaching the goal. Also, for the people who want to

study the ways of the people back in history, it is equally important to make

a study of the thinkers and artists of that time in order to define the

characteristics and personality of that ag

Through this, we can know that Virgil believed in the power of "Pollio" to

they were endowed to us from the gods so that the race of human beings

objects as they actually were. When they drew, they analized the visual

in art. They weren't just trying to describe how things looked like; they were

to find out what the people of ancient western world thought in view of the

be more close to the intentions of the divine powers.

Approximate Word count = 1527
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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