The easiest way is to say that both pictures are true, but neither is completely accurate. Let's try to illuminate the figure of a nobleman in a slightly different way, more impartially.

There is no doubt that it was the culture of the nobility that tried to realize the ideal of a comprehensively developed person, who is a full-fledged member of society and at the same time lives a rich inner spiritual life (until then, the Middle Ages contrasted these aspects of life in the images of a knight and a monk). At the same time, the nobles believed that only those people who were endowed with “innate nobility” and the right to independently determine their own destiny could achieve such harmony. But it soon turned out that the personal perfection of a person does not depend on the nobility of his origin (by the way, Italian humanists spoke about this in the 15th century).

It turns out that the nobles “gave” the ideal of a comprehensively developed person to the new Europe. For themselves, they “left” a feeling of deep disappointment with life, dissatisfaction and longing. From the outside, it might seem that disbelief in God, a general critical attitude, and even cynicism that spread among the nobles interfered with forward movement. These features of the structure of the mind and soul greatly irritated the representatives of the bourgeoisie who fanatically believed in God and progress. But over time, it turned out that these features of the noble consciousness were useful to the new Europe. They came in handy when the first enthusiasm for the revolutionary changes of the New Age had passed, when the Europeans again thought about their historical fate...
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