Open AccessDedal i Ikar - dwa humanistyczne ideały moralne
Author(s) -
Zygmunt Waźbiński
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
etyka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1161
pISSN - 0014-2263
DOI - 10.14394/etyka.223
Subject(s) - humanism , popularity , the renaissance , period (music) , moral character , character (mathematics) , the arts , scarcity , art , aesthetics , philosophy , art history , sociology , political science , epistemology , law , visual arts , theology , economics , geometry , mathematics , microeconomics
For humanists of the 15th and 16th centuries the literary motive of Daedalus and Icarus became a basis for discussions about the attitude of a man towards both other men and the world. The elitarian, “philosophical” character of this motive is emphasized by its scarcity in plastic arts of that period and, on the other hand, by its great popularity in the moral and emblematic literature. Here was the Renaissance somewhat a heir of the mediaeval Ovide moralisé.