Plato · thesis 5>61

Thesis 5>61

Latin

Dictum illud Platonis in Gorgia, Si orator scit iusta, est iustus, dico absolute, secundum se non ut ad hominem tantum, posse saluari, si unum ab alio esse intelligamus non formaliter, sed illatiue.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23292; 1486 print folio <25r/25v>

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 illativae | 1487 illative

1486 print reads 'illativae', 1487 'illative' (farmer1998:23303); orthographic variant of 'illatiue'.

English

Take Plato's saying in the Gorgias, that an orator who knows justice is just, and it can be defended unconditionally, not merely as an argument aimed at a particular opponent, provided we take the second claim to follow from the first inferentially rather than as a formal consequence of it.

Sense checked against farmer1998:23320; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:23320; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 2.12 Beatitudo est essentialiter in actu intellectus.