- Salvator Tongiorgi
Salvator Tongiorgi (
25 December 1820 -12 November 1865 ) was an ItalianJesuit philosopher and theologian.Life
Born in
Rome , Tongiorgi entered the Society of Jesus at the age of seventeen. After the usual noviceship, literary and philosophical studies, a half-decade was spent in teaching rhetoric atReggio and humanities atForlì . Then four years were passed in the study of theology, under the eminent professorsGiovanni Perrone ,Carlo Passaglia ,Ballerini , andPatrizi .Immediately after this, in 1853, the young priest was assigned to the chair of philosophy in the
Roman College , 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
Claude Ramiere . A compendium of the same work and a separate volume on ethics also came from his pen. All his works were used as text-books for college or seminary.On some of the mooted questions in philosophy the author departed from
Scholastic traditions, rejecting thePeripatetic 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 stimulatedneo-scholastic s to make better use of the researches carried on in the physical sciences.References
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Sommervogel , "Bibl. de la. c. de J.", VIII, 96;
*Hugo von Hurter , "Nomenclator"
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