Plato · thesis 5>6

Thesis 5>6

Latin

Ideo amor ab Orpheo sine oculis dicitur, quia est supra intellectum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22234

English

This is why Orpheus calls love blind: because love stands above the intellect.

Farmer's English for this thesis appears at farmer1998:22298 (the inventory's farmer_english_line field is empty for this thesis); sense checked there.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22298; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)
• Sophia Howlett, Re-evaluating Pico: Aristotelianism, Kabbalism, and Platonism in the Philosophy of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (2021)

Mention records in the corpus: 5 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>1 Quicquid dicant caeteri Cabaliste, ego prima diuisione scientiam Cabalae in scientiam sephiroth et semot, tanquam in practicam / et speculat
• 2.12 Beatitudo est essentialiter in actu intellectus.
• 23.9 Cum dicit Plato in mundi medio positam animam, de inparticipata anima debet intelligi, quam ideo in medio dicit positam, quia aequaliter omn
• 2>13 Sex transcendentia quae ponit communis doctrina_a iunioribus latinis sunt efficta; ea et graeci peripatetici, et princeps eorum Aristoteles
• 5>14 Cum Platonem audimus Palladem et amorem philosophos deos uocantem, ita intelligamus, ut amor sit philosophus ratione uiae, Pallas ratione te
• 5>21 Cum dicit Plato Amorem natum ex congressu Peniae et Pori in ortis louis, in natalibus Veneris, diis discumbentibus, nihil aliud intelligit q
• 5>24 Amor de quo Plotinus loquitur non est coelestis amor de quo Plato in Symposio, sed illius uera et proxima imago.
• 5>25 Pugnantia quae uidetur in dictis Orphei et Agathonis, quorum alter amorem antiquiorem omnibus diis dicit, alter iuniorem, perfecte soluemus
• 5>48 Non solum per dicta in Epinomide et Philebo a Platone, in quibus dialogis expresse ponit Plato foelicitatem in contemplatione, sed per dicta
• 5>49 Ex eo nomine quo dei nominant amorem, patet diligenter aduertenti quod in actu amoris non est foelicitas.
• 5>7 Cum dicit Plato in Timao in medio mundi positam animam, quicquid dicant caeteri Platonici, ego per medium lunam intelligo.
• 5>8 Infra ambitum terminati entis recte quinque illa Platonis pro transcendentibus ponuntur: Ens, Idem, Alterum, Status, et Motus.