al-Farabi · thesis 9.3

Thesis 9.3

Latin

Summum hominis bonum est perfectio per scientias speculatiuas.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13781

English

A human being's highest good lies in the perfection given by the speculative sciences.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13840; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to al-Farabi (section 9 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.1 Species intelligibiles non sunt necessariae, et eas ponere non est bonis peripateticis consentaneum.
• 2>21 Notitia de nouo acquisita fit ex praecedenti cognitione tanquam ex termino a quo, et tanquam ex causa effectiua partiali, formali, directiua
• 7.10 Tres modi per se sunt ad demonstrationem utiles: primus, secundus et quartus.
• 7.11 In omni demonstratione praeterquam in demonstratione simpliciter fieri potest circulatio.