Meletius Monachus on individuality :: a ninth-century Byzantine medical reading of Porphyry’s Logic

• Autores: Christophe Erismann
• Localización: Byzantinische zeitschrift, ISSN 0007-7704, Vol. 110, Nº. 1, 2017, págs. 37-60
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The ninth-century monk and doctor Meletius offers in his treatise De natura hominis a detailed and acute analysis of individuality. Through a set of unusual and well-chosen examples, he offers an explanation of the constitution of individuals based on the solution developed by Porphyry in his Eisagoge. After a discussion of the relevance of discussing individuality in a medical text, this article reconstructs Meletius’s own solution. This article also shows that Meletius’s knowledge of Porphyry comes from a passage of Theodore of Raithu that was integrated into the anonymous Christological florilegium known as the Doctrina Patrum de Incarnatione Verbi.