Plato · thesis 5>2

Thesis 5>2

Latin

Cum quaeritur a Platone an ad exemplar genitum an ingenitum factus sit mundus, nihil aliud quaeritur nisi an ad animales rationes, an ad ideas intellectuales.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22214

English

When Plato asks whether the world was made after a generated or an ungenerated pattern, nothing else is being asked except whether it was made after animate reasons or after intelligible ideas.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22276; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22276; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 5>4 Qui sciuerit rationem causae praesupponere rationem perfecti, intelliget iuxta Platonicam doctrinam quare dixerit Pherecides non prius Iouem