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Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters - From a letter to Francesco Tedaldi
Identifier
015987
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Ficino uses the Platonic definition of soul, that is Soul = mortal soul plus immortal soul
A description of the experience
Ficino, Marsilio – Selected Letters
From a letter from Marsilio Ficino to Francesco Tedaldi, his friend: greetings.
I know that my soul is not corporeal and mortal; for if it were, I would not understand the incorporeal and immortal and distinguish them from the corporeal and mortal. I know that it is rational; otherwise I would not know how to bring reason to bear on the soul and other matters. I know that, although it partakes of reason, yet it is not reason itself, as some think; if it were I could not wander from the truth in ascribing reasons to things, and wander from reason in conducting my affairs. He who declares that the soul is reason departs from reason more than he who denies this.