Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, otherwise known as Pico, was an Italian philosopher who is one of the most read of the Renaissance philosophers because "his work synthesizes all the strains of Renaissance and late medieval thinking: Neoplatonism, humanism, Aristoteleanism, and mysticism. (Hooker)" In his most famous work which was written as a speech, the Oration on the Dignity of Man, Pico shows the mindset of thinkers in the fifteenth century, talks about the capacity of the human mind and also addresses numerology and magic. He asks and makes us think about the question, "How can anyone judge or love what he does not know?" Pico delves deeper into this question throughout this work and even provides names of people who would be able to answer it.
             Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man questions how someone can believe in something that cannot be seen. He argues that humans have freedom to choose what they will become, and that it is that ability to choose that gives humans dignity. Pico also points out that Christianity is just another attempt to put some structure to the chaos that surrounds human experiences. When it comes to man's freedom, Pico says that freedom is "due to the fact that man contains all the gods within his incarnate form and yet has the power to have that which he chooses and be that which he wills. (Theosophy)" He also states and addresses the issue that man is neither mortal nor immortal, but is only one or the other through consciousness and what the man wants to be. Pico also creates his own philosophy on the basis of numbers, which is very old and based on Pythagoras. He presents these items and more in the Oration on the Dignity of Man.
             In Pico's work he brings up many good points and questions. When he presents the question, "How can anyone judge or love what he does not know?" he presents information and even people's names that could help t...