Theophrastus · thesis 15.4

Thesis 15.4

Latin

Deus mouet coelum ut finis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 14378

English

God moves the heaven as its final cause.

Sense checked against farmer1998:14435; 'ut finis' rendered 'as its final cause' to make explicit the Aristotelian sense of an unmoved end, not an efficient mover.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:14435; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 7.7 Deus primum mobile non solum ut finis, sed ut uerum efliciens et proprius motor mouet.