Pico della Mirandola, Luther, and Hobbes

1. In his Oration on the Dignity of Man, what did Pico della Mirandola argue that human beings
are free to become? What did he believe is the source of human freedom and what did he regard
as the noblest goal of that freedom? Based on your reading of The Bondage of the Will, and from
what you have learned in class and from the textbook, what specific similarities and differences
do you find between Pico’s understanding of human nature and Martin Luther’s? !
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2. Based on what you have read in Leviathan and in the textbook, and on what you have learned
in class, what specific similarities and differences do you find between Thomas Hobbes’s view
of human nature and those of Pico and Luther?!