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Aither 12/2014 (International issue no. 3):22-31 | DOI: 10.5507/aither.2014.016

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) and Renaissance Philosophy

Paul Richard Blum
Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland
Centre for Renaissance Texts, Faculty of Arts, Palackż University Olomouc

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) played a key role in the making of modern thought. He extended the humanist critique of medieval pessimism into an exaltation of the agency of humans. He advocated universal knowledge as liberation, suggested philosophical syncretism and concordance between philosophy and biblical wisdom based on the understanding that knowledge is what makes a human being human.
A presentation on Giovanni Pico della Mirandola should have at least nine hundred chapters - but I will reduce it to four or five.

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