ALEXANDRISTS  , the name given to those philosophers of the See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance, who, in the See also:

• GREAT

great controversy on the subject of See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

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

immortality, adopted the explanation of the De Anima given by See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander of Aphrodisias . According to the orthodox Thomism of the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

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
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle rightly regarded See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason as a See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of the individual soul . Against this, the Averroists, led by See also:

• AGOSTINO
• AGOSTINO, or AGOSTINI [AUGUSTINUS], PAOLO (1593-1629)

Agostino See also:

• NIFO, AGOSTINO [AUGUSTINUS Nlrnus] (c. 1473–1538 or 1545)

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

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

life only under the authority of universal reason . Hence the Alexandrists denied the possi-bility of immortality in every shape or See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form . Since the soul is organically connected with the See also:

• BODY

body, the See also:

• DISSOLUTION (from Lat. dissolvere, to break up into parts)

dissolution of the latter involves the extinction of the former .