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Gillian Clark Body and gender, soul and reason in late antiquity
[Synopsis] What does it mean to say that a human being is body and soul, and how does each affect the other? Late antique philosophers, Christians included, asked these central questions. The papers collected here explore their answers, and use those answers to ask further questions, reading Iamblichus, Porphyry, Augustine and others in their social and intellectual context. Among the topics dealt with are the following. Humans are mortal rational beings, so how does the mortal body affect the rational...
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Engels | 346 pagina's | Ashgate Variorum, Farnham | 2011
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