The Philosophy and Psychology of Pietro Pomponassi. By Andrew Halliday
Douglas. Edited by Charles Douglas and R. P. Hardie. (Cambridge University Press. 7s. 6d. net.)—The late Profese-cr Douglas wrote this essay as a thesis for the B.A. degree at Can:- bridge, and it is now published by his literary executors. Pomponazzi (1462-1524) was a Modernist in his way, and he shared the fate of the Modernist. He set forth the thesis that the doctrine of individual immortality is contrary to reason, but receivable by faith. Leo X. condemned his book, and set one Augustine Niplius to answer it by proving that the doctrine of individual immortality was not contrary to Aristotle. (Aristotle certainly conceives it as possible in the " Niconiachean Ethics.") The editors speak of Pomponazzi as "the last of the Schoohnen and the first of the Aristotelians." Any detailed examination of this volume is out of the question; but some notice is due to a work of genuine and, we may add, disinterested learning. Seldom indeed has the B.A. degree been better earned.
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