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ALEXANDRISTS , the name given to those philosophers of the See also:Renaissance, who, in the See also:great controversy on the subject of See also:personal See also:immortality, adopted the explanation of the De Anima given by See also:Alexander of Aphrodisias. According to the orthodox Thomism of the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:Aristotle rightly regarded See also:reason as a See also:faculty of the individual soul. Against this, the Averroists, led by See also:Agostino See also:Nifo (q.v.), introduced the modifying theory that universal reason in a sense individualizes itself in each soul and then absorbs the active reason into itself again. These two theories respectively evolved the See also:doctrine of individual and universal immortality, or the absorption of the individual into the eternal One. The Alexandrists, led by Pietro Pomponazzi, boldly assailed these beliefs and denied that either was rightly attributed to Aristotle. They held that Aristotle considered the soul as a material and therefore a mortal entity which operates during See also:life only under the authority of universal reason. Hence the Alexandrists denied the possi-bility of immortality in every shape or See also:form. Since the soul is organically connected with the See also:body, the See also:dissolution of the latter involves the extinction of the former.
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