Galen
historical figure · 3 works · 7 mentions · 7 anchored passages · author page · cited 6 times in 4 works
Jālīnūs · جالينوس
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.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The Greek physician whose location of sensation and voluntary motion in the brain is reported and rejected here in favour of the heart.
So it has become clear that the heart is the mine of perception (*idrāk*) and of the motive faculty (*al-quwwah al-muḥarrikah*), and not the brain, as Jālīnūs claimed.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Greek physician whose naturalising explanation of the divine disease is reported and rejected.
they named it the divine disease only because this affliction occurs in the head and so harms ⟨.