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See also:NEMESIUS (fl. c. A.D. 390)
, a See also:Christian philosopher, author of a See also:treatise 7repi rbuo-€ws avOpc,aov (On Human Nature), was, according to the See also:title of his See also:book, See also:bishop of Emesa (in See also:Syria); of his See also:life nothing further is known, and even his date is uncertain, but See also:internal See also:evidence points to a date after the Apollinarian controversy and before the strife connected with the names of' See also:Eutyches and See also:Nestorius, i.e. about the end of the 4th See also:century
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His book is an interesting See also:attempt to compile a See also:system of See also:anthropology from the standpoint of the Christian See also:philosophy
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See also:Moses and See also:Paul are put See also:side by side with See also:Aristotle and See also:Menander, and there is a clear inclination to Platonic doctrines of pre-existence and See also:metempsychosis
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In physiological matters he is in advance of Aristotle and See also:Galen, though we can hardly assert—as has sometimes been thought—that he anticipated See also:Harvey's See also:discovery of the circulation of the See also:blood
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The treatise is conclusive evidence as to the mutual See also:influence of See also:Christianity and See also:Hellenism in the 4th century
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See also: Versions: Latin by Alsanus, ed . Holzinger (1887); by See also:Burgundio, ed . Burkhardt (1891-1896) . Literature: See also:Bender, Untersuch. fiber Nemesius (1898) . See further See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyldop, s.v . |
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