León Battista Alberti y el origen no armónico del humanismo

Abstract

It is very usual, for the philosophers, to join excessively the notion of humanism to theEnlightenment. That is why the Renaissance origin of the concept is forgotten. This notion is usually understood from the eighteenthcentury assumptions established by Voltaire or Kant. If we recover the Renaissance origin of the concept of humanism, the reading made by Derrida, which is based in the thesis of a historical and essential communion between the concepts of ‘humanism’ and ‘fraternity’, makes no sense. From that point of view, this paper suggests a revision of the original approaches of the Renaissance humanism. It will be focused on one of its most outstanding exponents: Alberti.