In the diploma thesis, the author tries to show the understanding of human freedom and its dignity with the Renaissance philosopher Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola. To help understand Mirandola and his writings, he first demonstrates how philosophers understood the concept of freedom from antiquity to the beginning of the Renaissance. He also presents the Renaissance philosophers, the main highlights of their philosophy, and more broadly presents the time in which Mirandola lived and worked. He then presents the life of Pico and his other works and presents the contents of the essay On Human Dignity, which in the history of Western philosophy, represents one of the most sublime texts on the special position and dignity of a man who has the complete freedom to shape as he wishes. In this work, Pico did not draw so much from the great philosophers before him but wished to enlighten the idea of man's freedom and dignity with the wisdom of Kabbalah, hermetic writings, and mystical philosophy. Finally, the author dwells on the various responses of experts regarding the understanding of freedom in Pic's Oratio. Thus, it brings two different views that continue to emerge today. The first view sees Oratio as praise of man's autonomy, freedom, and liberation of all ties. As such, the work is understood as a revolutionary novelty, one of the key novelties that give the European man a chance to broke off with the mentality and non-freedom of the Middle Ages. This view sees Pico as a miraculous young man, a pervasive thinker who saw more than other authors of his time. Another view, however, wants to point out that Pico's understanding of freedom was not the same as today's, moreover, it was completely different. Pico did not see man as free from all authority, even freed from God. His freedom was not in the free choice of all that is offered to man but in the decision to follow reason and to rise above his bodily things with his help.
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