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A few paragraphs from a speech that Giovanni Pico (1463 – 1494) did not write about human dignity have drawn more comment than any other statement by a philosopher of his day. No philosophers of post-medieval, pre-Cartesian Europe are better known now than the prince and his contemporaries, Erasmus (b. 1466), Machiavelli (b. 1469) and Thomas More (b. 1478). Unlike them, he was fully committed to philosophia, as he understood it, and he was remarkably original – indeed, idiosyncratic. His persistently esoteric and…
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