Renaissance Humanism and Thinkers

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subjects, collectively called the humanities, included grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, politics, and moral philosophy.

Pico produced a work that described human achievement in his work, 'Oration on the Dignity of Man.' His work is entirely focused on remapping society with a focus both on human capacity and human perspective, and is often labeled as the work that most eloquently and fully describes the ideas of the humanists.

Pico shows his interest in returning to the ideas of the ancients, as well as his belief in a well rounded education, "for it seems to me that by the confrontation of many schools and the discussion of many philosophical systems that 'effulgence of truth' of which Plato writes in his letters might illuminate our minds more clearly, like the sun rising from the sea."

He also refers to the way Scholastism, while focusing on logic actually moves away from real truth, "any school which attacks the more established truths and by clever slander ...

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