What did Michel de Montaigne contribute to the renaissance?

Answer 1

Montaigne applies and illustrates his ideas concerning the independence and freedom of the self and the importance of social and intellectual intercourse in all his writings and in particular in his essay on the education of children. There, as elsewhere, he advocates the value of concrete experience over abstract learning and of independent judgment over an accumulation of undigested notions uncritically accepted from others. He also stresses, throughout his work, the role of the body, as in his candid descriptions of his own bodily functions and in his extensive musings on the realities of illness, of aging, and of death.

Answer 2

Michel de Montaigne, a French philosopher, is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He is considered one of the most significant figures of the French Renaissance for his skepticism towards established beliefs and his focus on individualism and self-exploration in his writings. Montaigne's work helped shape the development of modern thought and had a profound influence on later writers and thinkers.