Lotario dei Segni lived between c. 1160-1216, which was during the Medieval period roughly around c. 500-1400. Being the pope in 1198, Lotario drove many medieval beliefs within the society and strengthened the medieval ideas during that period. He expressed his ideas in his book called The Misery of the Human Condition, written in 1195 which reflected a set of christian attitudes he believed in. On the other hand, Pico della Mirandola lived between c. 1463-1494, which was the rising era of the Renaissance period. He was influenced by the humanistic ideas during the Renaissance period and medieval ideas that was lingering around as it was still the early stages of the Renaissance period. He was very famously known for being a syncretic, tying
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Though both of them were influenced by Medieval christianity, we can see the opposing views they believed in within the medieval christian beliefs. Being a Pope, Lotario had a clear ecclesiastical agenda (McBrien 1997, p.210) towards his views and reasoning, he like many “man of middle ages was obsessed by sins” (Le Goff 1990, p.28). In contrast Pico, famous for being a syncretic, tied in many of his renaissance influence to his medieval christianity influence. His philosophies were humanistic on a philosophical level (Miller 1998, p. xiv). Pico “often exhibited a tolerant eclecticism, an open-minded, receptive attitude toward foreign and ancient philosophies and religion” (Miller 1998, p. x). For example, Pico used Pythagoras, Empedocles, Mohammed, Plato, Aristotle, Latin, Hebrew and even Arabic and Aramaic sources of philosophies to explain and support his views and ideas as he believed that in every philosophy or school there is something notable that it does not have in common with the others (Pico On The Dignity of Man Ex 14). He sees that truth is not limited to only one philosopher (Miller 1998, p. ix), He believes that there is something special in each and every different philosophers and that we can learn and see that all of us are not that different after all. He also saw that religions traditions that were different from christianity traditions, contained some truth within it (Nauert 1995, p.66). Therefor, Pico’s views of human nature was imbedded from his own objective philosophy (Miller 1998, p. xiv), making him unbiased and
Though both of them were influenced by Medieval christianity, we can see the opposing views they believed in within the medieval christian beliefs. Being a Pope, Lotario had a clear ecclesiastical agenda (McBrien 1997, p.210) towards his views and reasoning, he like many “man of middle ages was obsessed by sins” (Le Goff 1990, p.28). In contrast Pico, famous for being a syncretic, tied in many of his renaissance influence to his medieval christianity influence. His philosophies were humanistic on a philosophical level (Miller 1998, p. xiv). Pico “often exhibited a tolerant eclecticism, an open-minded, receptive attitude toward foreign and ancient philosophies and religion” (Miller 1998, p. x). For example, Pico used Pythagoras, Empedocles, Mohammed, Plato, Aristotle, Latin, Hebrew and even Arabic and Aramaic sources of philosophies to explain and support his views and ideas as he believed that in every philosophy or school there is something notable that it does not have in common with the others (Pico On The Dignity of Man Ex 14). He sees that truth is not limited to only one philosopher (Miller 1998, p. ix), He believes that there is something special in each and every different philosophers and that we can learn and see that all of us are not that different after all. He also saw that religions traditions that were different from christianity traditions, contained some truth within it (Nauert 1995, p.66). Therefor, Pico’s views of human nature was imbedded from his own objective philosophy (Miller 1998, p. xiv), making him unbiased and