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Syncretism in the West : Pico's 900 Theses (1486) : The Evolution of Traditional Religious and Philosophical Systems : With a Revised Text, English Translation, and Commentary
English, Latin
- GenresPhilosophy
598 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 1998
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
48 books61 followersCount Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Italian: [dʒoˈvanni ˈpiko della miˈrandola]; 24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494) was an Italian Renaissance 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 famous 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."
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December 10, 2019
I read the first two chapters. Farmer does a great job of hyping Pico as the consummate, supreme syncretist or all of Western history (perhaps of global history, Farmer insinuates). Leaving that grandiose claim aside I felt like the best moments of the book were the keen psychological insights into mentality of an individual embarking on such an effort, the responsibility and sense so trepidation and genus such a mind must feel under the weight if such a project.
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