Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>14

Thesis 2>14

Latin

Necessarium est apud Aristotelem primam causam mouere de necessitate.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19086

English

According to Aristotle, it is necessary that the first cause moves of necessity.

Paired with 2>15 to resolve the necessity/freedom conflict through hierarchical modes of necessity (Farmer's note, farmer1998:19143).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05, reworded 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:19143; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 2>, philosophical conclusions dissenting from the common philosophy) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 2>15 Impossibile estet omnino irrationale apud Aristotelem omnia euenire de necessitate, respectu cuiuscunque causae illa necessitas accipiatur.
• 2>16 Tractatus suppositionum ad logicum non pertinet.
• 2>17 Non potuit mundus esse a deo ab aeterno efficienter efficientia uera, quae est reductio de potentia ad actum.
• 2>18 Potuit produci, et fuit de facto secundum Aristotelem et Commentatorem productus, ab aeterno mundus a deo efficientia quae est naturalis flu
• 2>60 Si qua est ponenda figura quarta syllogismorum, illa est ponenda quam Galienus ponit, non quam et Franciscus Maironis et Petrus Mantuanus pu
• 4>10 Illa uerba (hoc est corpus, etc.), quae in consecratione dicuntur, materialiter tenentur non significatiuae.