Theophrastus · thesis 15.1

Thesis 15.1

Latin

Si coelum inanimatum esset, esset quocunque animato corpore ignobilius, quod dicere impium est in philosophia.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 14367

English

Were the heavens without a soul, they would be baser than any ensouled body whatsoever — and to say so in philosophy is impious.

Sense checked against Farmer's rendering at farmer1998:14424; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:14424; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Theophrastus (section 15 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Farmer's cross-references

• 2>19 Qui negat coelum esse animatum, ita ut motor eius non sit forma eius, non solum Aristoteli repugnat, sed totius philosophiae fundamenta dest
• 7.7 Deus primum mobile non solum ut finis, sed ut uerum efliciens et proprius motor mouet.