What best expresses the central thesis of Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man, an essential example of Italian Renaissance humanism?
a. power should be used with cunning and ruthlessness
b. human weakness is to be gently denounced with laughter
c. humanity is saved by the grace of a loving God
d. humans are free to define their own nature as brutish or divine
Answer: d
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