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Nemesius

Nemesius

On the Nature of Man

Translated with an Introduction by Philip van der Eijk and R. W. Sharples
256 pages,  5-3/4 x 8-1/4  © 2008
Series: Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians

Paper $29.95

ISBN: 9781846311321   Published October 2008
For sale in North America only

Preface
Abbreviations
 
Introduction
1   The importance of Nemesius
2   Nemesius and the scope of his treatise
3   Nemesius' Christianity
4   Nemesius' views
5   Nemesius' sources
 
Nemesius, On the Nature of Man
1   On the nature of man
2   On the soul
3   On the union of soul and body
4   On the body
5   On the elements
6   On imagination
7   On sight
8   On touch
9   On taste
10  On hearing
11  On smell
12  On thought
13  On memory
14  On immanent and expressed reason
15  Another division of the soul
16  On the non-rational part or kind of the soul, which is also called the affective and appetitive
17  On the desirous part
18  On pleasures
19  On distress
20  On anger
21  On fear
22  On the non-rational element that is not capable of obeying reason
23  On the nutritive faculty
24  On pulsation
25  On the generative or seminal faculty
26  Another division of the powers controlling living beings
27  On movement according to impulse or choice, which belongs to the appetitive part
28  On respiration
29  On the intentional and unintentional
30  On the unintentional
31  On the unintentional through ignorance
32  On the intentional
33  On choice
34  About what things do we deliberate?
35  On fate
36  On what is fated through the stars
37  On those who say that choice of actions is up to us
38  On Plato's account of fate
39  On what is up to us, or on autonomy
40  Concerning what things are up to us
41  For what reason were we born autonomous?
42  On providence
43  About what matters there is providence
 
Bibliography
Index of passages cited
General index



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