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A paper which looks at Pico's Oration as an example of fifteenth century philsophy, and considers how Pico's worldview relates to that of the nineteenth century, and to the modern world. Bibliography lists 5 sources
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Picos "Oration on the dignity of Man: on Being and the One" is the way in which it not only gives insight into the Renaissance worldview, it also allows the
reader to speculate on Picos own ideological parameters, and his motivation for writing in the way that he does. He describes the world as he sees it, it is true,
but he is himself influenced and motivated by the ideology of the time. It is possible to critique his work not only from the modern perspective, but also with reference
to the way that other thinkers, in the period subsequent to the fifteenth century, regarded his view of the universe.
For instance, it cannot be denied that the work incorporates a celebration of humankind:
he offers a most appealing justification for Gods reasons for creating human beings. Having created the ethereal and incorporeal beings of the heavens and their opposites, the lowly creatures of
the earth, God seeks to find a medium between the two, a creature which has the potential to strive upwards to the heavens or gravitate towards the earth. Man is
therefore created as basically protean, formless, and capable of making what he wishes of himself. The other creations are fixed within the constraints and limits which God has set for
them, and might therefore be considered as somewhat less interesting than humans, who have the freedom to make their own choices and exercise their free will in constructing their own
lives. Humans, being in the centre of the picture, so to speak, have the capacity to align themselves with plants, animals or the angels, depending on their own actions and
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