Marsilio Ficino’s Platonic Theology, Volume II

Volume II contents

Book V · 7

V.1 Every rational soul is immortal. First argument: because it moves itself and moves in a circle. · 8

V.2 Second argument: because it stands firm in its substance. · 12

V.3 Third argument: because it cleaves to divine things. · 14

V.4 Fourth argument: because it rules over matter. · 16

V.5 Fifth argument: because it is free from matter. · 26

V.6 Sixth argument: because it is indivisible. · 32

V.7 Seventh argument: because it has its being in its own essence. · 34

V.8 Eighth argument: because it has a being of its own and never departs from its form. · 38

V.9 Ninth argument: because being belongs to it in its own right. · 46

V.10 Tenth argument: because by its own nature it is related to God. · 54

V.11 Eleventh argument: because it is not composed of any potency into which it could be resolved. · 60

V.12 Twelfth argument: because it has within itself no potency toward non-being. · 68

V.13 Thirteenth argument: because it receives its being from God without an intermediary. · 78

V.14 Fourteenth argument: because it is life in itself. · 94

V.15 Fifteenth argument: because life is more excellent than body. · 104

Book VI · 127

VI.1 The views concerning the soul are reduced to five principal positions. · 128

VI.2 Philosophers of the common sort, persuaded by no argument but misled by corrupt habit, held that the soul was corporeal. · 134

VI.3 The soul is neither a body nor a form divided within a body, as its natural power shows. · 168

VI.4 First argument: because the soul is the principle of nourishment and of every other mode of action. · 170

VI.5 Second argument: the soul is neither an animate body nor an inanimate one. · 174

VI.6 Third argument: the soul is neither a gross body nor a subtle one. · 178

VI.7 Fourth argument: a body is composed of matter and form. · 182

VI.8 Fifth argument: a body is by nature dispersed. · 186

VI.9 Sixth argument: two bodies do not occupy the same place. · 190

VI.10 Seventh argument: a body is not wholly present in several places at once. · 196

VI.11 Eighth argument: the soul is life or the source of life. · 198

VI.12 Ninth argument: a body does not move itself. · 202

VI.13 Tenth argument: the soul does not increase with the growth of this body. · 222