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Nemesius is also well known for his theories of divine providence, a theory that has been debated over the years. It was inspired by Plato. Nemesius considers providence as somewhat of a concern with particulars and those of universals. He states that it is the work of divine providence as the reason
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The primary providence is that of the supreme God. It is concerned with the heavens and the rational souls. The secondary providence is recognizable by the influence of heavenly bodies on the order of the coming of perishable things and the preservation of natural things. The tertiary providence in
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and before the strife that is connected to
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was termed the region of the faculty of intellect. This is the area that was responsible for controlling the judging, approving, refuting, and assaying of the sensory perceptions which are gathered in the lateral ventricles. The third faculty was identified as memory, and the storehouse of all
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sensory perceptions after they had been judged by the faculty of intellect. Nemesius believed that the faculties operated through the agent of an animal spirit produced after it had been carried through a network of arteries. This network was referred as the
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Nemesius, in his work " De Natura
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Nemesius was one in a succession of advocates, from
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in 307AD. He was brought to court accused of being a thief (through slander), and was later acquitted. Later, in a persecution during the time of the emperor
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Christianity of his published writings and the
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Nemesius' final theory of providence regards those who say that God is concerned for the continuity of things, but not with the particular of things.
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and is the region where all sensory perceptions were held in common. These were held by a force identified as the faculty of imagination.
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why everyone looks different from one another. He states that without divine providence nobody would be recognizable from the other.
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