Sobre la dignidad humana y otros textos del Renacimiento

In an era where the centrality of humankind is being questioned, this volume recovers the fundamental voices of Renaissance Humanism that placed human dignity at the heart of their reflections. Rafael Herrera Guillén's carefully curated selection of texts traces a path through the essential questions that continue to challenge us five centuries later: What does it mean to be human? What is our place in the world? How can we build a just society? From Pico della Mirandola's celebrated "Oration on the Dignity of Man" to Marsilio Ficino's reflections on knowledge, by way of Erasmus's social critique, More's utopia, Machiavelli's analysis of power, and Valla's defense of truthful language, each text offers us keys to confronting the challenges of the present. Faced with the risk of a "negative anthropocentrism" that reduces human beings to mere pests or technological cogs, this book invites us to rediscover the legacy of a time that knew how to place human beings at the center, not from arrogance, but from responsibility and awareness of their exceptional capacity to choose their own destiny.