Plotinus · thesis 20.5

Thesis 20.5

Latin

Anima irrationalis est idolum animae rationalis, ab ea dependens sicut lumen a sole.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15098

Source prints 'lumen 2 sole'; the digit '2' is an OCR misreading of 'a' (farmer1998:15099); corrected here.

English

The irrational soul stands to the rational soul as an image to its original, dependent on it exactly as light depends on the sun that casts it.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15152; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15152; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 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.
• 7.3 Foelicitas ultima hominis est cum continuatur intellectus agens possibili_ut forma; quam continuationem et latini alii quos legi et maxime I