Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Lorenzo de' Medici


German idialism not called renaissance... nobility implication...
patronage from nobility was missing on the german side

Lorenzo had put out the word "I will purshase any text of esoteric significance"
Book of enoch were provate ownership
industry started of occult books

hired by the medici to translate the hermetica

5th sect was power, does not like jews
know they going to try and sneak in their khaballah, zoroastrianism, mithraism: when constantine formed it back in ... he rebuked that stuff
but this is what the medici wanted to do
they wanted to bring back ancient greek platonism, neoplatonism, and the hermetica

renaiscance men were more fascinated by old testament and jewish(persian & babylonian) traditions while 5th sect rebuked it
true that some of these renainscance thinkiers did want back to the pagan way

Heresy conflicts

Pico main inspiration of Fichte who founded german idialism
first 2 eddicts of the 900 inspired the aerth of existantilism
paul sartre talking about man having nobasic essence or
edeinburg take on it
are just footnotes to Pico

Pico was speaking for plato, aristotle, iamblochus, plotanus which were speaking for heraclitus which himself was linked to the court of king cyrus the great !!!
great man are great man because they stand on the shoulders of giants, this is the real western tradition

900 thesis

alexander pope: drink or touch not the pyrenean springs, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
everything you know about hegel is wrong
false cold light

Marsilo ficino

forerunners of renaiscance humanism - Brunello latini, Dante, Petrach, Giovani Boccaccio, Celuccio salutati
humanism: philosopher as citizen

republic emphasis

syncretism vs anti-syncretism

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