Traite de l’immortalite de l’ame Tractatus de immortalitate animae
by Pietro Pomponazzi, edited and translated by Thierry Gontier
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(July 2012)
ISBN: 9782251801278
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English summary: Published for the first time in 1516, The Treatise on the Immortality of the Soul rapidly appeared as an emblematic publication of a mortalist position to the point of heterodoxy. Pomponazzi tries to prove, by employing a literature heavily influenced by the texts of Aristotle, that it is impossible to show a rational demonstration of the immortality of the soul. If the most immaterial function of the soul, intelligence, cannot be applied by the sensible commands provided by the imagination, then the soul depends on the body for all its operations and must consequently be corrupted by it. Pomponazzi contends traditional explanations (those proposed by Averroes, Platonists, and Thomas Aquinas) in favor of immortality. He revisits the traditional conception of the end of mankind and the relationship between speculative life and practical life, proposes a naturalistic interpretation of certain ‘supernatural’ or ‘miraculous’ phenomena, and restates the question regarding the relationship between reason and faith. This is the first critical edition (and first French translation) of De Immortalitate animAe. French text. French description: Publie pour la premiere fois en 1516; le Traite de l’immortalite de l’ame de Pomponazzi est vite apparu comme un ouvrage emblematique dune position mortaliste a la limite de lheterodoxie. Pomponazzi sattache a prouver; a partir dune lecture serree des textes dAristote; quil est impossible dapporter une demonstration rationnelle de limmortalite de lame. Si la plus immaterielle des fonctions de lame; lintelligence; ne peut sexercer que sur la base des donnees sensibles fournies par limagination; alors lame depend du corps dans toutes ses operations et doit donc se corrompre avec lui. Pomponazzi refute les solutions traditionnelles en faveur de limmortalite; celles dAverroes; des platoniciens et de Thomas dAquin. Il presente ensuite sa propre position; avant den developper les consequences dans une serie dobjections et de reponses; en revisitant la conception traditionnelle des fins de lhomme et des rapports entre vie speculative et vie pratique; en proposant une interpretation naturaliste de certains phenomenes dits surnaturels et de miraculeux; ou encore en posant a nouveaux frais la question des rapports entre la raison et la foi. Cette premiere edition critique et traduction en francais du De immortalitate animAe permet de proposer une lecture plus fine du texte que celle leguee par la tradition des libertins ; reprise en partie dans les lectures rationalistes de la fin du XIXe siecle et du debut du XXe siecle. Elle permet de faire la juste part des modes de pensee traditionnels auxquels Pomponazzi se refere et de mesurer avec plus de precision limportance de son apport a la constitution de la modernite philosophique.
- By (author) Pietro Pomponazzi
- Edited and translated by Thierry Gontier
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