Plato · thesis 5>42

Thesis 5>42

Latin

Per demonstrationem Platonis in Phedro de immortalite animae, firmius demonstratur aeternitas mundi quam per ullam rationem Aristotelis in .vii. Physicorum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22882

English

Aristotle's arguments in Book Seven of the Physics prove the world's eternity less firmly than Plato's demonstration, in the Phaedrus, of the soul's immortality does.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22941; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22941; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 22.9 Duplex est malorum demonum genus; alterum animae sunt et substantiales demones; alterum materiales potentiae et accidentales demones.
• 5>36 Per demonstrationem Platonis in Phedro de animae immortalitate, nec de nostris animis, ut Proclus, Hermias, et Syrianus credunt, nec de omni
• 5>43 Sicut et uidetur et auditur homo ab homine per motionem sensus ad extra, ita et uidetur et auditur demon ab homine et a demone per motionem
• 5>44 Cur homo non possit non uideri si sit presens a recte disposito in potentia uisiua, demon autem tunc solum uideatur cum uult uideri, ex modo