Peripatetic interpreters Alexander and Averroes; Pomponazzi; Galen vs Plato; Isidore of Pelusium

Next from the Peripatos there are two interpreters of Aristotle, one Greek — Alexander of Aphrodisias — the other Arab, namely Averroes: both place outside man the agent intellect, which alone they admit to be immortal; to which opinion of Averroes in the previous century Peter Pomponazzi alluded in disputing, and thereby provoked the censure of Pope Leo X in the Lateran Council, session 8. Galen also either denied the immortality of the soul or called it into doubt. For although somewhere he speaks so that he might seem less alien from admitting it, yet in the book That manners follow the temperament of the body he rebukes Plato for asserting the immortality of the mind.

Oppose to him what Isidore of Pelusium, the excellent disciple of the great Chrysostom, says against him in book 4, letter 125. Concerning the cure of bodies, he says, since that man is a most excellent craftsman in this art, let him speak by his own judgment: but concerning the soul let him not take up a contest with the wise nor descend into a struggle for which he is neither trained nor prepared. Galen was indeed a most excellent man in philosophy and medicine, and an impious mocker of the doctrine of Moses, who even in On the Use of Parts book 10 dared to deny that God, if he wished, could make a horse or an ox from ashes — much more, as it seems, about to deny that the first man was produced from a clod of earth, or that the body of each man already reduced to dust would be raised again the same in number.