Plotinus · thesis 20.4

Thesis 20.4

Latin

Anima quae peccauit uel in terreno uel in aereo corpore post mortem bruti uitam uiuit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15094

English

The soul that has sinned, whether in an earthly or an aerial body, lives the life of a beast after death.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15148; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15148; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Plotinus (section 20 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Sophia Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2021)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 21.8 Transcorporationem animarum crediderunt omnes sapientes Indorum, Persarum, Aegyptiorum, et Chaldeorum.
• 24.46 Sicut secundum causalitatis ambitum, ita secundum nature et gradus sublimitatem haec per ordinem se inuicem excedunt: Anima, Intellectus, Vi
• 3>43 Actus quo foelicitatur natura angelica et rationalis ultima foelicitate, nec est actus intellectus, nec uoluntatis, sed est unio unitatis qu
• 4.8 Ens de suis passionibus et ultimis differentiis quiditatiue non praedicatur.
• 5>51 Ex dicto illo Platonis in Phedro, quod nisi anima hominis ea que uere sunt intuita esset, in hoc animal non uenisset, si recte intelligatur,
• 7.3 Foelicitas ultima hominis est cum continuatur intellectus agens possibili_ut forma; quam continuationem et latini alii quos legi et maxime I
• 8>4 Ibidem per radices terrae nihil aliud intelligere possunt quam uitam uegetalem, conuenienter ad dicta Empedoclis, qui ponit transanimationem