Thus is attained the concept of man proper to Humanism: man the builder of the world in which he is to live and to rule. ... Oration on the Dignity of Man, by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

A brief excerpt from Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man ... He therefore took man as a creature of indeterminate nature and, assigning him a place in the middle of the world, addressed him thus:

For this reason, Euanthes the Persian in his description of Chaldaean theology, writes that man has no inborn, proper form, but that many things that humans resemble are outside and foreign to...

For this reason, Euanthes the Persian in his description of Chaldaean theology, writes that man has no inborn, proper form, but that many things that humans resemble are outside and foreign to...

Selections from Oration on the Dignity of; Man and Conclusions; Oration On the Dignity of Man*; ... For this reason, Euanthes the Persian in his description of Chaldaean theology, writes that man has

Oration on the Dignity of Man (excerpts ... For this reason, Euanthes the Persian in his description of Chaldaean theology, writes that man has no inborn, proper form, but that many things that

The introductory paragraphs of one of the most significant texts of the Italian Renaissance, The Oration on the Dignity of Man by Pico della Mirandola. ... The happiness of man! To man it is allowed to

Since a man cannot have an abortion, it is meaningless to talk of his right to have ... The principle of the equality of human beings is not a description of an alleged actual equality among humans:

Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man ... Czartoryski's Description of Alexander I and his Reforms

Italian scholar and Platonist philosopher whose De hominis dignitate oratio (“Oration on the Dignity of Man”), a characteristic Renaissance work composed in 1486,