Plato · thesis 5>34

Thesis 5>34

Latin

Per coelum in Epinomide, quod dicit Plato esse nobis causam omnium bonorum, non ideam coeli, sed ipsum coelum, quod est coeleste animal, intelligere debemus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22762

English

When the Epinomis calls heaven the cause of all our goods, Plato does not mean the idea of heaven; he means heaven as such—the living celestial creature itself—and that is what we should understand by the term.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22814; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22814; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 22.4 Omnis anima participans uulcanio intellectu seminatur in lunam.
• 22.5 Ex praecedenti conclusione elicio ego cur omnes Teutones bonae corporaturae et albi coloris.
• 22.6 Ex eadem conclusione elicio cur omnes Teutones apostolicae sedis sint reuerentissimi.
• 22.7 Sicut Apollo est intellectus solaris, ita Aesculapius est intellectus lunaris.
• 22.8 Ex praecedenti conclusione elicio ego cur luna in ascendente dat sanita-
• 24.1 Quod est in intelligibilibus terminus et infinitum, est in intellectualibus mas et femina, in supermundanis idemtitas et alteritas, similitu
• 24.50 Aeuum est supra per se animal in secunda et media trinitate.
• 5>35 Per necessitatis regnum in Symposio Platonis, nihil aliud intelligere debemus quam superabundantiam naturae alterius supra naturam eiusdem,