Theological, against the common mode · thesis 4>11

Thesis 4>11

Latin

Si teneatur communis uia quod actu intellectus attingatur deus, dico duas sequentes conclusiones, quarum haec est prima: quod uidentes uerbum, eo actu quo essentiam diuinam attingunt, creaturas non attingunt nisi eminenter, equipollenter ad formalem cognitionem, equipollentia non actus sed obiecti.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21670

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 cognitionem. Equipollentia

1486 punctuates 'cognitionem. Equipollentia'.

English

Granting the common view that God is reached by an act of intellect, I put forward two conclusions, the first being this: those who see the Word attain created things, by that same act by which they attain the divine essence, only in an elevated manner equivalent to formal knowledge of them — an equivalence of object, not of act.

Argued conditionally from within the 'common view' Pico elsewhere departs from (cf. 3>43); paired with 4>12 as its second conclusion.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21727; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 4>, theological conclusions differing from the common way of the theologians) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• Crofton Black, Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics (2006)
• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>43 Actus quo foelicitatur natura angelica et rationalis ultima foelicitate, nec est actus intellectus, nec uoluntatis, sed est unio unitatis qu
• 4>12 Beati duplicem habent cognitionem de creaturis, eas formaliter attingentem, quarum altera illatiue est, ex ea qua uerbum attingunt, altera s
• 4>7 'Tria transcendentia in quibus consistit imago non dicunt diuersas rationes in recto, et principaliter diffinibiles uel descriptibiles.