Do people still value the Renaissance Man? I think that the Renaissance Man is undervalued. Knowing about, or how to do, a very wide range of things is worth more than just the sum of the disparate subjects-- it is only by this great variety of learnedness that a person can be created for whom new, uncategorized situations are tolerable and even "straightforward."
Specifically, one part of being a Renaissance Man that is now thoroughly ignored is study of the classics. The totality of modern (since the Renaissance) learning is still perhaps only equal, in scope and value, to the learnings recorded between about 500BC and 500AD.
I should really credit Matt Ward with recognizing the value of the classics, however obsessed with the pharmacon and the bad festival he may be.
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