Salvator Tongiorgi (25 December 1820 – 12 November 1865) was an Italian
Jesuit philosopher and theologian.
Life
Born in
Rome
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, Tongiorgi entered the
Society of Jesus
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at the age of seventeen. After the usual noviceship, literary and philosophical studies, a half-decade was spent in teaching rhetoric at
Reggio Emilia and humanities at
Forlì
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The city is situated along the Via ...
. Then four years were passed in the study of theology, under professors such as
Giovanni Perrone Giovanni Perrone (11 March 1794 – 26 August 1876) was an Italian Jesuit and renowned theologian.
Life
Perrone was born in Chieri, Piedmont. After studying theology and obtaining a doctorate at Turin, he entered the Society of Jesus in Rome at age ...
and
Carlo Passaglia
Carlo Passaglia (2 May 1812 – 12 March 1887) was an Italian Jesuit.
Life
He was born at Lucca.
Passaglia was soon destined for the priesthood, and was placed under the care of the Jesuits at the age of fifteen. He became successively doct ...
.
Immediately after this, in 1853, the young priest was assigned to the chair of philosophy in the
Roman College
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, and there during twelve years distinguished himself as a teacher and author. Within a few days of his forty-fourth birthday he was appointed assistant to the provincial of the Roman Province; but his health gave way before a year had elapsed.
Works
Tongiorgi wrote a well-known course of philosophy, ''Institutiones philosophicae'', which he published in three volumes at Rome in 1861 and at Brussels in 1862. Nine editions appeared during the next eighteen years, some of them modified by
Claudio Ranieri
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. A compendium of the same work and a separate volume on ethics also came from his pen. All his works were used as textbooks for college or seminary.
On some of the mooted questions in philosophy the author departed from the
scholastic tradition, rejecting the
Peripatetic theory of matter and form, denying the real distinction between accidents and substance, and claiming that mere resultants of mechanical and chemical forces could produce the life-activity seen in the vegetable world. These doctrines were not widely accepted; yet they stimulated
neo-Scholasticism
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to make better use of the researches carried on in the physical sciences.
References
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Sommervogel
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, ''Bibl. de la. c. de J.'', VIII, 96;
**
Hugo von Hurter
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External links
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Salvatore Tongiorgi in the Historical Archives of the Pontifical Gregorian University
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1820 births
1865 deaths
Clergy from Rome
19th-century Italian Jesuits
Italian philosophers
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic theologians
Jesuit theologians
Writers from Rome