Review article
https://doi.org/10.52685/pihfb.47.1(93).3
Matija Frkić on the Intellect and Immortality of the Soul
Ivana Skuhala Karasman
orcid.org/0000-0001-7769-5259
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
At the center of this article is Frkić’s understanding of the intellect and immortality of the soul. He writes about it in his work Vestigationes peripateticae de quibusdam philosophicis ad mentem Aristotelis (Peripatetic Researches on Some Philosophical Problems in the Spirit of Aristotle) published in 1639 in Padua. The initial position that can be traced throughout the whole argumentation performed by Frkić is as follows: Frkić is aware that in Aristotle’s texts there is no concrete place on the basis of which it can be stated that Aristotle himself considers the soul immortal, therefore it is necessary to carry out an interpretation of the entire opus of Aristotle that would allow the possibility of the immortality of one part of the soul. In the second book of the Sixth Research of Peripatetic Researches, Frkić deals with the problem of the rational soul. He, according to Christian doctrine, holds that the human rational soul is immortal. It is also called reason or spirit and is separable from the body. Its action does not depend on the body; therefore, it can survive on its own.
Keywords
Matija Frkić; immortality of the soul; intellect; peripatetic philosophy
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Publication date:
24.6.2021.
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