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2 novembre 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.efr.23240
- isbn: 9782728315055
- eisbn: 9782728315062
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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The hot opposites bodily parts creation mechanistic model médicine Hippocrate medicina greca medicina romana Ippocrate Classics History & Philosophy Of Science HIS002010 HBLASujets proches
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Stavros Kouloumentas, « Tracing the origins of beings: cosmogony and anthropogony in On Flesh », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.23240
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The author of On Flesh presents an eclectic cosmogony that reflects several theories formulated in the fifth century BC and attempts to combine it with an account about the origins of the body. After examining the cosmogonic stages, I analyse how the hot, the protagonist of the system expounded, is connected with other qualities in order to form various bodily parts. The elaborate description of the author shows that there are some norms which regulate the behaviour of opposites when they interact with each other, but it is not illuminating for crucial issues related to the anthropogony, especially the combination of bodily parts. In fact, the author seems to put forward a mechanistic explanation for the formation of human beings which can be contrasted with the Platonic creationism in the Timaeus.