Pietro Pomponazzi - the Triumphs and Tragedies of Religious Free Thinking

摘要

The article discusses the problems of religious and secular interpretation of faith, knowledge, immortality of the soul on the example of the philosophy of the famous Renaissance thinker P. Pomponazzi. His concepts of free will and divine predestination are also analyzed. According to the author, Pomponazzi's interpretation of religious miracles and religious morality is radical even today. The author considers him one of the predecessors of the Reformation. The undoubted relevance of Pomponazzi's philosophical ideas in the conditions of growing clerical influence and escalation of religious contradictions are pointed out.