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Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
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Body and Gender, Soul and Reason in Late Antiquity (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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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 soul? The body needs
food: what foods are best for the soul, and is it right to eat
animal foods if animals are less rational than humans? The body is
gendered for reproduction: are reason and the soul also gendered?
Ascetic lifestyles may free our bodies from the limitations of
gender and desire, so that our souls are free to reconnect with the
divine; but this need must be balanced with the claims of family
and society. Philosophers asked whether life in the body is exile
for the soul; Christians defended their claim that body as well as
soul would live after death, and even the smallest fragment of a
martyr's body is proof of resurrection.
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