Plato · thesis 5>27

Thesis 5>27

Latin

Cum dicit Plato Omne quod fit a causa fieri, referendum est per se ad per se, et per accidens ad per accidens.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22651

English

When Plato says that everything that comes to be, comes to be from a cause, this must be referred: what exists per se to per se causes, and what exists by accident to accidental causes.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22706; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22706; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, Scholastic Florence: Moral Psychology in the Quattrocento (2014)
• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 24.38 In per se uiuente apparet primo quaternitas_unius, entis, unius entalis, et entis unialis.
• 24.39 Opifex, ad quaternitatem respiciens per se animalis, quatuor fabricat partes principales mundi.
• 24.40 In quantum opifex ad exemplar formae unius in per se uiuente respicit, primam partem corporis mundani facit.
• 24.41 Inquantum opifex in forma unius uidet unum unius essentialis, facit deos mundanos illius partis; inquantum ens unius essentialis, facit ange
• 24.42 Facit opifex alias partes proportionaliter ad suarum formarum exemplaria sicut de primo est dictum; nec opportet explicare, quia quilibet sc