Context: Humanists reacted against this utilitarian approach and the narrow pedantry associated with it. They sought to create a citizenry (frequently including women) able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity and thus capable of engaging the civic life of their communities and persuading others to virtuous and prudent actions. This was to be accomplished through the study of the studia humanitatis, today known as the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry and moral philosophy. As a program to revive the cultural – and particularly the literary – legacy and moral philosophy of classical antiquity, Humanism was a pervasive cultural mode and not the program of a few isolated geniuses like Rabelais or Erasmus as is still sometimes popularly believed.

Question: What was it about the utilitatian beliefs that humanism believers did not like?
Answer: narrow pedantry

Question: What group that had been to this point neglected was included in this thought?
Answer: women

Question: What foundation of study allowed for the accomplishment of the goal of a scholarly people?
Answer: humanities

Question: Was the humanism of the time limited to scholars?
Answer: pervasive cultural mode

Question: What was it about the utilitarian beliefs that humanism believers loved?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What foundation of study restricted the accomplishment of the goal of a scholarly people?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What was the least pervasive cultural mode?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who disliked women the most?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who was considered an isolated imbecile?
Answer: Unanswerable