A contribuição de Giovanni Pico della Mirandola no delineamento da concepção de dignidade da pessoa humana: aspectos históricos e filosóficos recepcionados pelo Direito

Abstract

This research aimed to address the dignity of man under a historical-philosophical approach along a timeline. The chapters follow the chronological order of history, starting with Presocratics and culminating in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the Humanist movement and the Renaissance. It is examined what freedom and free will meant in each time period and the unrest brought by that thinker even before the philosophers of ancient Greece. As the topic evolves throughout history it seems to deconstruct the social pyramid of Plato, suggesting greater flexibility and easy transit among classes. This leads man to a sense of freedom never experienced before. The bourgeois catalyze this movement in Humanism, funding philosophers devoted to the subject, like Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. In his Oration, Mirandola introduces a unique vision of the dignity, treating it as something immanent to man, a divine gift that could not be disrupted even by God. His thinking promotes the development of mercantilism and encourages commercial and maritime practices whose interesting results pleased the bourgeoisie and assured them they were on the right path