Questions to be answered by numbers · thesis 7a>24

Thesis 7a>24

Latin

Vtrum sit melius deum causare res quam non causare.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 24048

English

Whether God's causing of things is better than his not causing them.

Sense checked against Farmer's English at farmer1998:24107; recast with a nominalized 'God's causing of things' to vary Farmer's 'it is better for God to cause things'.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T08b; sense checked against farmer1998:24107; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own list of questions to be answered through numbers (section 7a>) · Pico's stance: unstated

Farmer's cross-references

• 2>14 Necessarium est apud Aristotelem primam causam mouere de necessitate.
• 2>15 Impossibile estet omnino irrationale apud Aristotelem omnia euenire de necessitate, respectu cuiuscunque causae illa necessitas accipiatur.
• 7a>25 Vtrum creatio rerum ad extra procedat necessario a diuina essentia in tribus personis hypostatizata.