Averroes · thesis 7.3

Thesis 7.3

Latin

Foelicitas ultima hominis est cum continuatur intellectus agens possibili ut forma; quam continuationem et latini alii quos legi et maxime Iohanes de Gandauo peruerse et erronee intellexit, qui non solum in hoc, sed ferme in omnibus quaesitis Philosophiae, doctrinam Auenrois corrupit omnino et deprauauit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12940

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 Johanes de Gandago | 1487 Johannes de gandago

Sheet's underscore in 'possibili_ut' normalized to a space. The 1486/1487 apparatus gives the name as 'Johanes de Gandago' / 'Johannes de gandago' for 'Iohanes de Gandauo' (farmer1998:12961). 'Auenrois' (for Averroes) is left as it stands in the copy-text; not established whether this is a period spelling or an OCR misreading.

English

Man's final happiness occurs when the agent intellect is conjoined to the possible intellect as its form; and this conjunction was perversely and mistakenly understood by the other Latins I have read, and above all by John of Jandun, who corrupted and utterly distorted Averroes's doctrine, not only on this point but in almost every question of philosophy.

'continuatur ... ut forma' rendered as 'is conjoined ... as its form', keeping 'conjunction' as the technical term for the union of agent and possible intellect.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:12994; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Averroes (section 7 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Crofton Black, Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics (2006)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 17.9 Cum dicit Anstoteles non recordari nos post mortem quia passiuus intellectus corrumpitur, per passiuum intellectum, possibilem intellectum i
• 18.1 Anima rationalis est immortalis.
• 20.7 Foelicitas hominis ultima est cum particularis intellectus noster totali primoque intellectui plene coniungitur.
• 3.5 Quiditates habent ab aeterno suum esse formale a se, non ab extrinseco.
• 3>67 Cuilibet seriei animarum unus correspondet purus intellectus.
• 3>68 Omnes animae coelestes in primo intellectu unum sunt.
• 3>69 Rationabile est secundum philosophiam omnem seriem animalem in proprio beatificari intellectu; quod tamen non assertiue sed probabiliter dic
• 7.2 Vna est anima intellectiua in omnibus hominibus.
• 7.4 Possibile est tenendo unitatem intellectus, animam meam, ita particulariter meam ut non sit mihi communis cum omnibus, remanere post mortem.