Nemesius of Emesa on human nature : a cosmopolitan anthropology from Roman Syria /

Nemesius of Emesa on human nature : a cosmopolitan anthropology from Roman Syria /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dusenbury, David Lloyd, author.
Edition:	First edition
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xxiv, 205 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford early Christian studies Oxford early Christian studies.
Subject:	Nemesius, -- Bishop of Emesa. -- On the nature of man. On the nature of man (Nemesius, Bishop of Emesa) Philosophical anthropology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13242094

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ISBN:	0198856962 9780198856962
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	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 dozenlanguages -- 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 midical, legal and philosophical -- are made to converge upon a decisive tenet of Christian late antiquity: humans' natural freedom. For Nemesisus, reason and choice are a divine double-strand of powers. Since he believes that both are a natural human inheritance, he concludes that much in 'in our power'. Nemesius defines humans as the only living beings who are at once ruler (intellect) and ruled (body). Becaurse 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 humanking both philosophical and anatomical proof.
Other form:	Electronic version: Dusenbury, David Lloyd. Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature. Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2021 9780192598981

Table of Contents:

Ideas for a reconstruction
The world city: On human nature 1
The union of substances: On human nature 2-5
The organization of powers: On human nature 6-28
The logic of law: On human nature 29-43
Epilogue: The legacy of early Christian anthropology.