Mathematics · thesis 7>2

Thesis 7>2

Latin

Si foelicitas sit in speculatiua perfectione, mathematicae non faciunt ad foelicitatem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23616

English

If happiness consists in speculative perfection, the mathematical sciences contribute nothing to happiness.

Sense checked against Farmer's English at farmer1998:23669; 'consists in'/'contribute nothing to' vary Farmer's 'exists in'/'does not lead to'.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T08b; sense checked against farmer1998:23669; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 7>, mathematical conclusions) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• Crofton Black, Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics (2006)
• Ernst Cassirer, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: A Study in the History of Renaissance Ideas (1942)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 7>1 Mathematicae non sunt uerae scientiae.
• 7>3 Mathematicae scientiae non sunt propter se, sed ut uia ad alias scientias quaerendae.
• 7>4 Sicut subiecta mathematicorum, si absolute accipiantur, intellectum nihil perficiunt, ita si ut imagines accipiantur superiorum, immediate n
• 7>5 Sicut dictum Aristotelis de antiquis, dicentis quod ideo errarunt in physica contemplatione, quia mathematice_res physicas tractarunt, uerum