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HoP 076 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Squeeze My Liver as Thought Being a Hoe

In some sense the appetites are centralized in the liver. He doesn't think of the liver as being for instance an alternative seat of consciousness. It's not that when you feel hungry and you recognize the fact that you feel hungry, that's all going on in the Liver. There's something going on inThe liver. Roughly speaking the basic, nutritive drive is being registered as a conscious fact in the brain. So he thinks that as you say the spirited part is located in the heart. And equally the arterial system branches out from the aorta and appears to start in theHeart. But he got the pulmonary system in Zarmic which is a bit of an issue

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