Oration on the Dignity of Man
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| - | In perhaps the critical text of Italian [[Renaissance Humanism]] [[Pico della Mirandola]], at the young age of twenty-three, wrote a famous text, the ''[[Oration on the Dignity of Man]]'', a series of theses on philosophy, natural thought, faith and magic defended against any opponent on the grounds of reason. | + | In perhaps the critical text of Italian [[Renaissance humanism]] [[Pico della Mirandola]], at the young age of twenty-three, wrote a famous text, the ''[[Oration on the Dignity of Man]]'', a series of theses on philosophy, natural thought, faith and magic defended against any opponent on the grounds of reason. |
| + | In the [[1480s]], [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola]] wrote a preface to the nine hundred page thesis that he submitted for public debate entitled ''An Oration on the Dignity of Man''. The debate never took place, but the work became a seminal text in the development of humanism. In it, he talked about how God created man and that man's greatness comes from God. He said that man was like a [[chameleon]]; which meant that he could become whatever he wanted to be. | ||
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In perhaps the critical text of Italian Renaissance humanism Pico della Mirandola, at the young age of twenty-three, wrote a famous text, the Oration on the Dignity of Man, a series of theses on philosophy, natural thought, faith and magic defended against any opponent on the grounds of reason.
In the 1480s, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola wrote a preface to the nine hundred page thesis that he submitted for public debate entitled An Oration on the Dignity of Man. The debate never took place, but the work became a seminal text in the development of humanism. In it, he talked about how God created man and that man's greatness comes from God. He said that man was like a chameleon; which meant that he could become whatever he wanted to be.
