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Alexandrist
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English
Etymology
From en Alexander ist, after Alexander of Aphrodisias.
Noun
A member of the group of Renaissance philosophers who revived the naturalistic psychology of the ancient Greek commentator Alexander of Aphrodisias; they debated orthodox Catholic views and Averroists by arguing that the individual human soul and its rational intellect is entirely mortal and perishes with the physical body.
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