mortalist

I gave him rest -- he who worked so hard for others, my dear, tired-eyed mortalist.

Chapter 11: The Great Adventure 2010

After a critical examination aimed at rejecting the views of Plato, Averroes and Thomas Aquinas (chapters 3-8), Pomponazzi endorses a “mortalist” solution to the problem, which at least in part revived the thesis of the animal nature and thus the mortality of the human soul, a theory which had been put forward by Alexander of Aphrodisias, one of the most important late ancient Greek interpreters of Aristotle (2nd-3rd century AD).

Pietro Pomponazzi Perfetti, Stefano 2004

Due to his mortalist theory of the soul, 17th-century

Pietro Pomponazzi Perfetti, Stefano 2004

Pomponazzi's main philosophical contributions were: (i) a reassessment of the “mortalist” interpretation of Aristotelian psychology; (ii) a radical critique of what are commonly thought of as miracles, which he instead explained in terms of a concatenation of natural causes; (iii) an interpretation of religions as pedagogical instruments whose rise and fall is determined by God through heavenly cycles as a means of educating the masses;

Pietro Pomponazzi Perfetti, Stefano 2004

I gave him rest -- he who worked so hard for others, my dear, tired-eyed mortalist.

The Iron Heel Jack London 1896