Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.38

Thesis 2.38

Latin

Grauia potius seipsis, quam a seipsis mouentur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11784

English

Heavy bodies are moved rather in virtue of themselves than strictly by themselves.

The Latin distinguishes 'seipsis' (ablative, 'in virtue of/with themselves') from 'a seipsis' (agent, 'by themselves'). Sense checked against farmer1998:11845.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11845; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Thomas Aquinas (section 2 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 2.37 Grauia et leuia a nullo alio motore mouentur quam uel a generante uel a remouente prohibens.
• 2>36 Demonstratio Aristotelis in .vii. Physicorum, quod omne quod mouetur mouetur ab alio, nihil probat eorum quae uel Thommas, uel Scotus, uel E
• 2>37 Demonstratio .vii. Physicorum probat euidenter quod coelum non mouetur a se, datis principiis Auenrois ueris utique et firmissimis.
• 2>9 Illa dicitur actio immanens quae non est subiectiue in illo quod passiue per eam denominatur, et per hoc distinguitur a transeunte.
• 4.18 Aliquid potest mouere seipsum de actu uirtuali ad actum formalem.
• 6.11 Dato uacuo, si aliquid in eo moueatur, in instanti mouebitur.
• 7.12 Grauia et leuia mouent se per accidens mouendo medium per se.
• 7.7 Deus primum mobile non solum ut finis, sed ut uerum efliciens et proprius motor mouet.
• 7a>44 Vtrum sit eadem natura mouentis et moti motu physico.