Welche Seele hat der Embryo? Johannes Philoponos und die Antike Embryologie
Welche Seele hat der Embryo? Johannes Philoponos und die Antike Embryologie

Author: Scholten, Clemens

Source: Vigiliae Christianae, Volume 59, Number 4, 2005 , pp. 377-411(35)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

In Late Antiquity, most non-Christian philosophers doubted whether the human embryo could be regarded as a true living being (ζωov). Their Christian rivals held a different conviction. John Philoponos went even further than his Christian predecessors with his view that the human embryo has not only an αλoγoς ψνχη, but also a rational soul (λoγικη ψνχη). Unfortunately, he has expounded his arguments in a lost work, which probably antedated his De aeternitate mundi of 529 A.D., so that only reasonable assumptions concerning these arguments are possible.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157007205774582118

Publication date: 2005-12-01