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9781846311321

Nemesius On the Nature of Man

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  • ISBN13:

    9781846311321

  • ISBN10:

    1846311322

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-01-11
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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Summary

On the Nature of Manis an invaluable text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much contested source of evidence for earlier works now lost, but also as a vivid illustration of intellectual life in the late fourth century. Nemesius, its author, was a Christian bishop who was influenced by the medical works of Galen, as well as the philosophical writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Porphyry; the subject of the text is not only the nature of human beings and their place in the scheme of created things, but also an anthropological study of early Christian theology. A considerable influence on later Byzantine and medieval Latin philosophical theology,On the Nature of Manis an essential text for any scholar of the early history of medicine, theological history, and ancient studies.

Author Biography

Philip Van Der Eijk is professor of Greek at Newcastle University. R. W. Sharples is professor of classics at University College, London.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The importance of Nemesius
Nemesius and the scope of his treatise
Nemesius' Christianity
Nemesius' views
Nemesius' sources
Nemesius, all the Nature of Mall
On the nature of man
On the soul
On the union of soul and body
On the body
On the elements
On imagination
On sight
On touch
On taste
On hearing
On smell
On thought
On memory
On immanent and expressed reason
Another division of the soul
On the non-rational part or kind of the soul, which is also called the affective and appetitive
On the desirous part
On pleasures
On distress
On anger
On fear
On the non-rational element that is not capable of obeying reason
On the nutritive faculty
On pulsation
On the generative or seminal faculty
Another division of the powers controlling living beings
On movement according to impulse or choice, which belongs to the appetitive part
On respiration
On the intentional and unintentional
On the unintentional
On the unintentional through ignorance
On the intentional
On choice
About what things do we deliberate?
On fate
On what is fated through the stars
On those who say that choice of actions is up to us
On Plato's account of fate
On what is up to us, or on autonomy
Concerning what things are up to us
For what reason were we born autonomous?
On providence
About what matters there is providence
Bibliography
Index of passages cited
General index
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