ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the humanist articulation of three key philosophical exchanges: being and seeming, virtue and fortune, and stasis and mutability. The humanist imagination could therefore be simultaneously artistic and philosophical, just as Renaissance artists configured the love of wisdom in their creations. The humanist dialogue, as a philosophical form of expression, showcases a mobile understanding, in which interlocutors modify their views as they continue to confront their shifting perceptions through their exchanges with others. Humanist dialogues therefore acknowledge the fact of intersubjectivity and convey their philosophical inquiry with historical inflection. Cristoforo Landino's dialogue therefore merges scholastic and humanist ontology in a way that grounds his objective understanding of knowledge and morality. This concession to the theater of existence, embracing the whole person, body and mind, conditioned for many humanists the virtue of Stoicism. Humanity encounters divinity in the world, which is an arena of unstable, fluctuating interchange, imbued with transience.
