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PORZIO, SIMONE (1497-1554)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 169 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SIMONE (1457—1508)
SIMONE (1497-1554) , See also:

ITALIAN

Italian philosopher, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and died at See also:

Naples. Like his greater contemporary, Pomponazzi, he was a lecturer on See also:

MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

Pisa (1546-1552), and in later See also:

LIFE

life gave up purely scientific study for See also:

SPECULATION

speculation on the nature of See also:

man. His philosophic theory was identical with that of Pomponazzi, whose De immortalitate animi he defended and amplified in a See also:

TREATISE

treatise De mente humane. There is told of him a See also:

story which illustrates the See also:

TEMPER (from Lat. temperare, to mingle or compound in due proportion, to qualify, rule, regulate, to be moderate, formed from tempos, time, fit or due season)

temper of the See also:

early humanistic revival in See also:

Italy. When he was beginning his first lecture at Pisa he opened the meteorological See also:

TREATISES

treatises of See also:

Aristotle. The See also:

AUDIENCE (from Lat. audire, to hear)

audience, composed of students and townspeople, interrupted him with the cry Quid de anima ? (We would hear about the soul), and Porzio was constrained to See also:

CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change the subject of his lecture. He professed the most open See also:

MATERIALISM (from Lat. materia, matter)

materialism, denied See also:

IMMORTALITY (Lat. in-, not, mortalis, mortal, from mors, death)

immortality in all forms and taught that the soul of man is homogeneous with the soul of animals and See also:

PLANTS

plants, material in origin and incapable of See also:

SEPARATE

separate existence.

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