1. Pico, Sanchez and Renaissance Humanism
... limits, man ordains for himself-he has the capacity to ascend or descend in the order by merit of his pursuits. Pico sees this order akin to Jacob's Ladder, which man gains access to through the art of discourse and reasoning, and to its highest ranks, through philosophy. He holds that God created man below the angels, but that by discovering the secrets ... of the Cherubs through philosophy, man can not only battle the angels and succeed through strength of will, but become filled with such divine power that "[he ... fiction" (Sanches, 402). He believes that nothing, let alone man, ca...
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