Philosopher
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Overview
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance nobleman and philosopher. He is famed for the events of 1486, when, at the age of 23, he proposed to defend 900 theses on religion, philosophy, natural philosophy, and magic against all comers, for which he wrote the Oration on the Dignity of Man, which has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance", and a key text of Renaissance humanism and of what has been called the "Hermetic Reformation". He was the founder of the tradition of Christian Kabbalah, a key tenet of early modern Western esotericism. The 900 Theses was the first printed book to be universally banned by the Church. Pico is sometimes seen as a proto-Protestant, because his 900 theses anticipated many Protestant views.
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Philosophers who discussed Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
- Paracelsus
- Platonic Academy (Florence)
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Marsilio Ficino
- Michelangelo
- Renaissance
- John Philoponus
- Nicholas of Cusa
- Thomas More
- Plotinus
- Marin Mersenne
- Elia del Medigo
- Judah Leon Abravanel
- Agostino Steuco
- Francesco Giorgi
- Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi
- Brian Copenhaver
Ideas Giovanni Pico della Mirandola discusses
- Giorgio Vasari
- Genesis creation narrative
- Avicenna
- BBC News
- Florence
- Christian Kabbalah
- René Girard
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Philosophy
- James Joyce
- Kabbalah
- Hermeticism
- Middle Ages
- Averroism
- Marsilio Ficino
- Augustine of Hippo
- Michelangelo
- Astrology
- Platonism
- Old Testament
- Neoplatonism
- Symposium (Plato)
- Utopia (book)
- Sigmund Freud
Place in the tradition
Part of Averroism.
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