The Importance of Unity With the Divine

The most significant context for understanding this famous part of Pico's oration is the revival of Platonism, led by his older friend and colleague, Marcidio Ficino. In our earlier look at Ficino, we saw him making the point that the human is the bond of the world and a fusion of all other natures. He puts the point nicely in his commentary on the Timaeus, the dialogue of Plato also the name checked in Pico'sOration. It behooves the human to be the animal which would worship those above,. Being the mean between the animals on high, which are immortal in body as in soul, and the animals whose soul and