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Pico Della Mirandola's Argumentative Essay

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Does mankind have good potential as a species, can we become something immensely great, or are we doomed as a species? Its seems human nature to question yourself as a species. Many authors and philosophers had talked about the nature of man and are this natural allow mankind to have a long lasting legacy. One of these authors was Pico Della Mirandola an Italian philosopher and he wrote many works on this subject. One of these was known as the excerpt "Oration on the Dignity of Man,". “I have read in the ancient writings of the Arabians that Abdala the Saracen on being asked what, on this stage, so to say, of the world, seemed to him most evocative of wonder, replied that there was nothing to be seen more marvelous than man”(Pico) This quote
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