Argument
Human body
Overview
entire structure of a human organism
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I. The human body is composed of a number of individual parts, of diverse nature, each one of which is in itself extremely complex. II. Of the individual parts composing the human body some are fluid, some soft, some hard. III.
Benedictus de Spinoza, Ethics
Names Human body several times; states what Human body is.
The microcosm of the human body is the lesser image of the macrocosm. The courses of the same and the other affect both; they are made of the same elements and therefore in the same proportions.
Plato, Timaeus
States what Human body is; names Human body twice.
13. The anus is placed in the side in some of these creatures, for this is where the excrement passes out. The mecon, as I have said, is a superfluous part enclosed in a thin membrane in all of them; that which is called the ovarium has no passage in any of them, but it swells out in the flesh. This is not placed upon the intestine, for the ovarium is on the right side and the intestine on the left; the anus is the…
Aristotle, Aristotle's History of Animals In Ten Books
States what Human body is; the author is tied to Human body in the knowledge graph.
Philosophers who discussed Human body
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Place in the tradition
Part of Biological naturalism.