Theological, against the common mode · thesis 4>24

Thesis 4>24

Latin

Tenendo communem uiam theologorum, quod foelicitas sit in intellectu uel in uoluntate, dico duas conclusiones, quarum prima est haec: quod intellectus ad foelicitatem non perueniret nisi esset actus uoluntatis, qui in hoc est ipso actu intellectus potior.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21967; 1486 print folio <22r/22v>

English

Holding to the theologians' common view that happiness resides in the intellect or in the will, I offer two conclusions; the first is that the intellect could not reach happiness without an act of will, which here outranks the act of intellect itself.

Argued within the 'common way' framework Pico is not himself committed to (cf. 3>43, 4>4, 4>11); paired with 4>25 as its second conclusion.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:22014; 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)

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