Simplicius · thesis 17.3

Thesis 17.3

Latin

Cum anima in se perfecte redit, tunc intellectus agens ab intellectu possibili liberatur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 14553; 1486 print folio <6v/7r>

Closes the mid-word line break printed as 'intelle/ctu' in the source (farmer1998:14554).

English

Once the soul has turned fully back into itself, it is then that the agent intellect breaks free of the possible intellect.

Sense checked against farmer1998:14610; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:14610; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Simplicius (section 17 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: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).