Nemesius

Nemesius' treatise "On the Nature of Man" is an important text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much-quarried source of evidence for earlier works, but also as an indication of intellectual life in the late fourth century AD. This title provides a compendium of theological anthropology with a Christian orientation.

Autorentext
Philip Van Der Eijk is Professor of Greek at Newcastle University. R.W. Sharples is Professor of Classics at University College London.

Klappentext
"On the Nature of Man" is 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 Man "is an essential text for any scholar of the early history of medicine, theological history, and ancient studies.


Zusammenfassung
Nemesius' treatise On the Nature of Man is an important text for historians of ancient thought, not only as a much-quarried source of evidence for earlier works now lost, but also as an indication of intellectual life in the late fourth century AD.

Inhalt
Introduction; Nemesius' importance; Nemesius and the scope of his treatise; Nemesius' Christianity; Nemesius' views; Nemeisus' sources; Nemesius, On the Nature of Man; On the nature of man; On the Soul; On the union of the soul and body; On the body; On the elements; On imagination; On sight; On touch; On taste; On hearing; On smell; On thought/On the faculty of memory; On the 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 the 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 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; Index of names; Subject index.

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