Thomas Leinkauf

This article tries to introduce a new reading and understanding of Pico della Mirandola’s famous ‘oratio’ by subdiving substantial parts of the texts and indicating the respective relations. The creational constitutio of man has its counterpart in the autopoietic constitution of the self as the basic fundament of the individual human being, the idea of unfolding the potentials and dynamics of the divine principle has its counterpart and analogon in the unfolding of the potentials and dynamics of the initially undifferentiated image of the divine principle that becomes its ‘visible’ shaping through educational operations discussed in the second part...