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Rereading Pico della Mirandola’s Oratio de hominis dignitate

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2017, (37), pp.5~32
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Published : August 31, 2017

Lim, Byung-chul 1

1신라대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

This study aims to re-interpret Pico della Mirandola’s famous work, Oratio de hominis dignitate, from a new viewpoint. At first, by having an eye on the fact that the main theme of Oratio is an exercise in praise of philosophy, this study claims that Pico’s perspective on man was based on the philosophical and intellectualistic anthropology. Secondly, it argues that Pico regarded philosophy as a necessary but insufficient element in man’s spiritual pilgrimage back to God. Considering this, the man Pico highly acclaimed was not so much an autonomous being as a passive one annihilating his own self for returning to God. In conclusion, Pico was an moral ontologist who put much emphasis on man’s pursuit of the best life among many options given to him.

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