Gianozzo Manetti’s Human dignity concept: between ancients and moderns
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The present article enquires into the origin of a positive valuation of all mankind nature in the emerging Renaissance. We place the opposed-to-tradition Gianozzo Manetti´s thought by focusing on De dignitate et excellentia hominis and showing the radical innovation of his approach, highly influenced by the aristotelianism. For that purpose, we show two traditions that dignify the man condition: the Greek one, which is organized around the microcosm concept and the Latin one, built upon the dignitas term. We suggest that by giving the Greek tradition up, the Latin is driven to a very different horizon. Therefore the wrong classic term of dignitas is transformed into an analogue one.
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