Scotus · thesis 4.5

Thesis 4.5

Latin

Praxis est operatio alterius potentiae ab intellectu, apta nata conformiter elici rationi rectae ad hoc: ut sit recta.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12156

English

Praxis is an operation of a power other than the intellect, naturally fitted to be drawn out in conformity with right reason, precisely so that it may itself be right.

Sense checked against farmer1998:12206; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12206; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Scotus (section 4 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

Mention records in the corpus: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 2>25 Praxis est operatio quae non est formaliter cognitio, et potest esse recta_et non recta, rectificabilis per habitum, ut per partiale rectifi