Mixing Body and Soul: Galen on the Substance of Soul in QAM and De Propriis Placitis.
In a late treatise, That the Capacities of the Soul Follow the Mixtures of the Body (QAM), Galen of Pergamum infamously offered the view that the substance of the soul is identical with a bodily mixture. This thesis has been found radical and extreme in modern scholarship and is generally considered...
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2020
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