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Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature - A Cosmopolitan Anthropology from Roman Syria (Hardcover)
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Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature - A Cosmopolitan Anthropology from Roman Syria (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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Nemesius of Emesa's On Human Nature (De Natura Hominis) is the
first Christian anthropology. Written in Greek, circa 390 CE, it
was read in half a dozen languages-from Baghdad to Oxford-well into
the early modern period. Nemesius' text circulated in two Latin
versions in the centuries that saw the rise of European
universities, shaping scholastic theories of human nature. During
the Renaissance there were numerous print editions helping to
inspire a new discourse of human dignity. David Lloyd Dusenbury
offers the first monograph in English on Nemesius' treatise. In the
interpretation offered here, the Syrian bishop seeks to define the
human qua human. His early Christian anthropology is cosmopolitan.
He writes, 'Things that are natural are the same for all.' In his
pages, a host of texts and discourses-biblical and medical, legal
and philosophical-are made to converge upon a decisive tenet of
Christian late antiquity: humans' natural freedom. For Nemesius,
reason and choice are a divine double-strand of powers. Since he
believes that both are a natural human inheritance, he concludes
that much is 'in our power'. Nemesius defines humans as the only
living beings who are at once ruler (intellect) and ruled (body).
Because of this, the human is a 'little world', binding the
rationality of angels to the flux of elements, the tranquillity of
plants, and the impulsiveness of animals. This compelling study
traces Nemesius' reasoning through the whole of On Human Nature, as
he seeks to give a long-influential image of humankind both
philosophical and anatomical proof.
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