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Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our Power (Hardcover)
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Porphyry: To Gaurus on How Embryos are Ensouled and On What is in Our Power (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Commentators on Aristotle
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Concerning embryos, Porphyry takes an original view on issues that
had been left undecided by his teacher Plotinus and earlier by the
doctor Galen. What role is played in the development of the embryo
by the souls or the natures of the father, of the mother, of the
embryo, or of the whole world? Porphyry's detailed answer, in
contrast to Aristotle's, gives a significant role to the soul and
to the nature of the mother, without, however, abandoning
Aristotle's view that the mother supplies no seed. In the fragments
of On What is in Our Power, "Porphyry" discusses Plato's idea that
we choose each of our incarnations, and so are responsible for what
happens in our lives. This volume contains an English translation
of the two commentaries, as well as extensive notes, an
introduction and a bibliography.
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