Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.12

Thesis 2.12

Latin

Beatitudo est essentialiter in actu intellectus. Correlarium: Nec fruitio, nec aliquis actus uoluntatis, est essentialiter beatitudo.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11419

English

Beatitude consists, in its essence, in an act of the intellect. Corollary: neither enjoyment nor any act of the will is, in its essence, beatitude.

First of the series on intellect versus will in beatitude (Farmer's note, farmer1998:11497). Sense checked against farmer1998:11476.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11476; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Thomas Aquinas (section 2 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references