Gasparo Contarini was the first to write a critique of the treatise On the Immortality of the Soul by his teacher Pietro Pomponazzi. The future Cardinal claims that the human soul can be perfected during life with the body and that it is philosophically sound – and not only an article of faith – that the soul is immortal.
Gasparo Contarini (1483-1542) was a member of a patrician family in Venice. He studied in Padua, among others with Pietro Pomponazzi, before engaging in the duties of a diplomat for his city. Due to his merits in negotiating with the Protestants he was created Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. In his scarce leisure time he kept writing philosophical and scientific studies.
The editors are a group of scholars connected with Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic).
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction
1. On the Genesis of this Edition – Acknowledgments
2. Contarini on Immortality
3. The Opening of the Treatise
4. The Conclusion
5. Some arguments
6. Life and Philosophy
7. Technical Notes on the Edition
8. Citations and Abbreviations
GASPARO CONTARINI
DE IMMORTALITATE ANIMAE / ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL
Liber Primus
Book One
Introduction
Part I: Investigation
Part II: Aristotle’s opinion
Liber Secundus
Book Two
Contarini’s Premisses
Pomponazzi’s Arguments for the Materiality of the Soul
Some passages from Aristotle
Index
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