Galen
historical figure · 1 work · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages · author page
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
Ancient physician and philosopher cited on animals' and man's natural equipment for defense.
” On which Galen expresses himself in the following manner, “every animal appears to defend itself with that part of its body, in which it excels others.
This is called by Galen in the sixth book de placitis Hippocrat et, Platonis, the first power of the state.
Galen says that capital punishments are inflicted to prevent men from doing harm by a longer course of iniquity, and to deter others by the fear of punishment, adding that it is better men should die, when they have souls so infected with evil, as to be incurable.