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Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our Power - Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Porphyry
Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our Power - Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
Porphyry
Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the doctor Galen. What role is played in the development of the embryo by the souls or the natures of the father, of the mother, of the embryo, or of the whole world?
192 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | April 15, 2011 |
ISBN13 | 9780715638583 |
Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Pages | 192 |
Dimensions | 163 × 236 × 21 mm · 458 g |
Language | English |
Translator | Wilberding, James (Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany) |