The World of Pico

The 900 Theses

Pico split his Historical Theses into 5 sections:

 

The Latins (115 theses)

The Arabs (82 theses)

The Greek Peripatetics (29 theses)

The Platonists (99 theses)

The Ancient Sages (77 theses)

 

The next 500 or so theses, the Theses According to his Own Opinion, deal with his own ideas, but nonetheless most of these concepts are explained with the aid of exisiting systems.

 

Paradoxical Reconciliative Conclusions (17 theses)

Philosophical Conclusions Dissenting from the Common Philosophy (80 theses)

Paradoxical Conclusions Introducing New Doctrines into Philosophy (71 theses)

Theological Conclusions Opposed to the Common Mode of Theologians (29 theses)

Conclusions on the Doctrine of Plato (62 theses)

Conclusions on the Book of Causes (10 theses)

Conclusions on Mathematics (85 theses)

Conclusions on Zoroaster and his Chaldean Commentators (15 theses)

Conclusions on Magic (26 theses)

Conclusions on Understanding the Orphic Hymns According to Magic (31 theses)

Cabalistic Conclusions Confirming the Christian Religion (72 theses)

 

TOTAL = 900 THESES