Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Proclus · thesis 24.53

Thesis 24.53

Latin

Quaecunque de supercoelesti loco in Phedro affirmatiue dicuntur, de eo dicuntur non ut simpliciter primum, sed ut habet ante se superiora genera quibus participat. Quaecunque negatiue dicuntur, dicuntur ut analogice se habet ad primum bonum, quod est absolute caput omnium, non determinati ordinis huius uel illius.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 16812

English

Whatever is affirmed in the Phaedrus about the supercelestial place is said of it not as of the simply first, but as of something that has higher genera before it, in which it participates. Whatever is said negatively is said of it as it stands analogically to the first good, which is without qualification the head of all things and belongs to no determinate order, this one or that.

'analogice se habet ad primum bonum' rendered 'stands analogically to the first good'. 'caput omnium' is 'head of all things'. No corrupt word.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-T03b-2; sense checked against farmer1998:16849; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Proclus (section 24 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports