Plato · thesis 5>30

Thesis 5>30

Latin

Modus cognoscendi per ideas est ille cuius dixit Plato in Timeo paucos homines esse participes, sed bene deos omnes.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22669

English

Plato states in the Timaeus that only a few human beings share in this way of knowing through the ideas, though every god does fully; it is this mode of knowledge that is meant here.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22725; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22725; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.6 Anima separata intelligit per species sıbi a principio sui esse concreatas, quibus dum est in corpore aut nunquam aut raro utitur.
• 20.12 Improprie dicitur quod intellectus ideas inspiciat uel intueatur.
• 24.3 Dei appellatio simpliciter absolute uni competit, qui est deus deorum; simpliciter non absolute cuilibet supersubstantialium; secundum essen