About
Oration
Summary
Philosphy
Western Thought and Culture
100

Giovanni Pico was born

What is February 24, 1463?

100

Oration was condemned by the Church because it was seen as

What is heretical?

100

Pico believed humans were not made equal but

What is higher order?

100

Pico believed that humans were all born with this key concept, making them unique and arguably more important than God's creations?

What is dignity?

100

Western thought and culture medieval period is between

What is Mid 5th C. to Mid 15th century?

200

Giovanni Pico is considered a renaissance...

What is a humanist?

200

Became public discourse in...

What is 1486?

200

This is an Italian born man who is best known for his work on Oration, also known as manifesto of the renissance

Who is Giovanni Pico?

200

This word best describes Pico's belief that humans had the potential to ascend to an angelic level.

What is higher being?

200
The point of Babel is to show

What is the 

- Paradigm of the culture

- how we build culture out of fear of ourselves, not fear of God

300

Giovanni Pico published how many philosophical documents

What is 900?

300
Pico wrote oration at age

What is 23?

300
In Oration, Pico described human beings as "____", they could rise to divine status or fall to the level of animals
What is "the middle"?
300

Pico's key concept and philosophy of divinity of man.

What is free will, dignity, and ascension?
300

We create culture out because of a ____ of self, not because of the _____ of God.

What is absence or presence?

400

Oration was an illustration of 

What is humanist syncretism?

400

Oration is often referred to as...

What is Manifesto of the renaissance?

400

Pico delivered 900 philosophical doctrine, ranging from theology to mysticism, what is the name of the controversy surrounding these?

What is the Pico affair?

400

Pico argued humans were created to rise to this divine like state.

What is angels?

400

Western thought and culture is split up in three periods.

What is ?

 -Pre-modern

- Post- modern

- Classical period

500

Oration was published in...

What is 1496?


Bonus: What is posthumously?

500

In oration, Pico discusses a quality that allows those to shape their own destiny

What is free will?

500

Pico references this philosopher's concept of the human soul's divinity and understanding.

Who is Plato?

500
Oration directly opposed the Vatican beliefs as it was about

Free will and dignity 

500

Three questions asked in Western though and culture is 

What is 

- who/what is God?

- What is the world?

- Who are we?