RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Nejeschleba, Tomáš
T1 Principles of Pietro Pomponazzi's Philosophy - Seeking for "True" Aristotelianism
JF Aither
YR 2014
VO 6
IS 1
SP 38
OP 47
DO 10.5507/aither.2014.004
UL https://aither.upol.cz/en/artkey/ath-201401-0004.php
AB Pietro Pomponazzi is usually considered as the main figure of Renaissance Aristotelianism. In his works he deals with different topics, especially when one takes into account his most important works like De immortalitate animae, De incantationibus and De fato. It is little wonder that historians of philosophy have tried to explore and capture the unifying principles of his philosophy under one term - or "-ism" - which could serve to characterize it as a unified whole.This article aims to describe and criticize these attempts as they have emerged in the history of philosophy when Pomponazzi's thought was labeled as "Averroism", "Alexandrism" or "Aristotelianism" in general. Special attention is paid at the end of the article to Eckhart Kessler's recent interpretation which has been assessed as the most plausible, but it still does not refer to Pomponazzi's omnipresent shift to Fideism. The conflict between Pomponazzi's quest for true Aristotelianism and Christian belief can still be assumed as a fundamental principle of his thought.