CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2015
| Author | Darovskikh, Andrey |
|---|---|
| Title | Embryology in Nemesius' On the Nature of Man: between philosophy and medicine |
| Summary | The content of this thesis is a case study of the understanding of human nature in the late antique tradition. Nemesius of Emesa in his treatise On the Nature of Man, written in the second half of the fourth century AD, tends to consider the problem of man at the intersection of philosophy and medicine, where these fields considerably overlap, and he reconciles the achievements of these two disciplines with a developing Christian tradition. The focus of the thesis is the problem of the embryo’s formation in Nemesius of Emesa’s anthropological account. Considering different aspects of embryology, I argue that Nemesius’ account is a result of the continuity of ancient philosophy and medicine, with a particular influence of the authors of the Hippocratic corpus and Galen, together with the philosophical discourses of Plato, Aristotle and representatives of Stoic and Neoplatonic philosophy. In addition, the thesis argues that Nemesius also tends to adjust their ideas according to the influence of the developing Christian tradition, while he polemicizes with such representatives of Christian thought as Origen, Arius or Eunomius, Theodore of Mopsuestia, who were at the time judged as dubious authorities or heretics. |
| Supervisor | Perczel István |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2015/darovskikh_andrey.pdf |
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