7/26/2023 0 Comments Opus est necesse est![]() ![]() Now the principle of those things that come about through art is the human intellect, and the human intellect derives according to a certain resemblance from the divine intellect, which is the principle of natural things. The reason for this is that operations and effects stand proportionately in the same relation to one another as their principles among themselves. Et ideo intellectus humanus ad quem intelligibile lumen ab intellectu divino derivatur, necesse habet in his quae facit informari ex inspectione eorum quae sunt naturaliter facta, ut similiter operetur.ฤก As the Philosopher teaches in Book II of the Physics, art imitates nature. Si enim aliquis instructor alicuius artis opus artis efficeret oporteret discipulum, qui ab eo artem suscepisset, ad opus illius attendere, ut ad eius similitudinem et ipse operaretur. Unde necesse est, quod et operationes artis imitentur operationes naturae et ea quae sunt secundum artem, imitentur ea quae sunt in natura. Principium autem eorum quae secundum artem fiunt est intellectus humanus, qui secundum similitudinem quamdam derivatur ab intellectu divino, qui est principium rerum naturalium. Cuius ratio est, quia sicut se habent principia adinvicem, ita proportionabiliter se habent operationes et effectus. PROEMIUM PROEMIUM Sicut philosophus docet in secundo physicorum, ars imitatur naturam. ![]() The Leonine differs in text and arrangement, and corrections were made accordingly. This translation is based on the Spiazzi 1951 edition. Commentary on Aristotle's Politics Book 1: Lesson 1, and Book 3: Lessons 1-6 ![]()
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