Plato · thesis 5>58

Thesis 5>58

Latin

Venatio illa Socratis, de qua in Protagora, conuenienter per sex gradus potest sic distribui: ut primus sit esse materiae extrinsecae, secundus esse particulare immateriale, tertius esse uniuersale, quartus esse rationale, quintus esse particulare intellectuale, sextus esse totale intellectuale; in septimo tanquam, in sabbato, cessandum est a uenatione.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23198

Apparatus (Farmer): colon retained from 1486 edition | 1486 immateriale. Tertius | 1487 potest sic describi | 1487 tanquam sabbato

1486 print has minor punctuation variants ('immateriale.Tertius'); 1487 reads 'potest sic describi' and 'tanquam sabbato' (farmer1998:23219-23220); wording otherwise unchanged.

English

Socrates's hunt in the Protagoras divides neatly into six stages: first, the being of matter outside us; second, particular immaterial being; third, universal being; fourth, rational being; fifth, particular intellectual being; sixth, total intellectual being—after which, in a seventh stage, as on the Sabbath, the hunt must stop.

Sense checked against farmer1998:23253; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:23253; 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)
• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 2>74 Dico secundum Thommam dicendum esse in actu reflexo intellectus
• 3>1 Sicut esse proprietatum praeceditur ab esse quiditatiuo, ita esse quiditatiuum praeceditur ab esse uniali.
• 3>43 Actus quo foelicitatur natura angelica et rationalis ultima foelicitate, nec est actus intellectus, nec uoluntatis, sed est unio unitatis qu
• 5>56 Dictum illud in Sophiste: Qui unum non dicit nihil dicit, illud est quod ab Aristotele dicitur: Qui unum non intelligit nihil intelligit.
• 5>59 Quod dicitur in Euthydemo, non in habitu, sed actu consistere foelicitatem, intellige de actu reflexo.
• 5>60 Per id quod in Lachete dicitur: Quorumcumque est scientia non esse aliam eorundem ut preteritorum, aliam ut presentium, aliam ut futurorum,