Problémy interpretace renesančního vědění: empirie vs. tradice v renesanční kultuře

Abstract

The central theme of this study is the problem of the interpretation of Renaissance knowledge, especially the relationship between empiricism and tradition in Renaissance epoch. The paper analyses three forms of Renaissance knowledge: humanism, historia naturalis and natural philosophy. It primarily intends to reject the characteristics of Renaissance period like the age of modernism and empiricism as well as the age of renovation of antiquity. There were those who praised the classical heritage and the others who attacked the ancients while integrating many ancient concepts in their works. And therefore the Renaissance should be interpret like the period of “seeming paradoxes”.