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Alex's space - Windows Live
Alex's space - Windows Live: "Oration on the Dignity of Man
``We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever gifts you may, with premeditation, select, these same you may have and possess through your own judgement and decision. The nature of all other creatures is defined and restricted within laws which We have laid down; you, by contrast, impeded by no such restrictions, may, by your own free will, to whose custody We have assigned you, trace for yourself the lineaments of your own nature. I have placed you at the very center of the world, so that from that vantage point you may with greater ease glance round about you on all that the world contains. We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer. It will be in your power to descend to the lower, brutish forms of life; you will be able, through your own decision, to rise again to the superior orders whose life is divine.''"
``We have given you, O Adam, no visage proper to yourself, nor endowment properly your own, in order that whatever place, whatever form, whatever gifts you may, with premeditation, select, these same you may have and possess through your own judgement and decision. The nature of all other creatures is defined and restricted within laws which We have laid down; you, by contrast, impeded by no such restrictions, may, by your own free will, to whose custody We have assigned you, trace for yourself the lineaments of your own nature. I have placed you at the very center of the world, so that from that vantage point you may with greater ease glance round about you on all that the world contains. We have made you a creature neither of heaven nor of earth, neither mortal nor immortal, in order that you may, as the free and proud shaper of your own being, fashion yourself in the form you may prefer. It will be in your power to descend to the lower, brutish forms of life; you will be able, through your own decision, to rise again to the superior orders whose life is divine.''"
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Oratio Ominis Dignitate (Giovani Pico della Mirandola)
No te he dado ni un rostro, ni un lugar propio, ni don alguno que te sea peculiar, Oh Adán,para que tu rostro, tu lugar y tus dones tu los elijas, los conquistes y los poseas por ti mismo. La Naturaleza encierra a otras especies en leyes por mi establecidas. Pero tu que no estás sometido a ningun limite, con tu propio arbitrio, al que te he confiado, te defines a ti mismo. Te he colocado en el centro del mundo, para que puedas contemplar mejor lo que este contiene. No te he creado ni celestial ni terrenal, ni mortal ni inmortal, para que por ti mismo, libremente, seas el arquitecto de tu propio destino y plasmes tu propia imagen. Podras degenerar en cosas inferiores, como son las bestias, podras, segun tu voluntad, regenerarte en cosas superiores, que son divinas
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