... della Mirandola illustrates this "spirit of the Renaissance."" He maintained that man is "liberated from superstitions and unnatural social restraints,...[and]...could recover the lost image of God within himself."" Machiavelli identified liberty as man's self-assertion in the fulfillment of his own aspirations and desires. Both rejected the idea that liberty was to be used by men to accommodate themselves ... ...

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