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"It moves itself away from the conceptual, even though that is a layer of the work".
The soul's nature is defined precisely as its movement, whereby it moves itself.
IX of the Lent Session, 1285: "Utrum voluntas moveat seipsam" ("Whether the will moves itself").
Though it moves itself out of the way as you browse, a swipe down from the top will reveal it at any point.
Now, what seems to be the other premise of this argument, namely the proposition that the soul moves itself, is refuted by Aristotle in De anima 1.3 4 on the strength of the very proposition established in Physics 7.1 and 8.5 and cited by Metochites in the preceding paragraph, namely that movement is necessarily an irreflexive relation.
In this passage Metochites seems to contend that Aristotle's argument against self-movement in Physics 7.1 and 8.5 entails the proposition that "what moves itself will not cease to do so," which is used as one of the premises of an argument for the immortality of the soul.
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