Uncover Galen: Works On Human Nature: Volume 1, Mixtures (de Temperamentis) Narrated By Peter Singer Available In Physical Edition

is of central importance for Galen's views on the human body, It presents his influential typology of the human organism according to nine mixtures or 'temperaments' of hot, cold, dry and wet, It also develops Galen's ideal of the 'welltempered' person, whose perfect balance ensures excellent performance both physically and psychologically, Mixtures teaches the aspiring doctor how to assess the patient's mixture by training one's sense of touch and by a sophisticated use of diagnostic indicators.
It presents a therapeutic regime based on the interaction between foods, drinks, drugs and the body's mixture, Mixtures is a work of natural philosophy as well as medicine, It acknowledges Aristotle's profound influence whilst engaging with Hippocratic ideas on health and nutrition, and with Stoic, Pneumatist and Peripatetic physics, It appears here in a new translation, with generous annotation, introduction and glossaries elucidating the argument and setting the work in its intellectual context.
Peter Singer is sometimes called the worlds most influential living philosopher although he thinks that if that is true, it doesnt say much for all the other living philosophers around today.
He has also been called the father or grandfather of the modern animal rights movement, even though he doesnt base his philosophical views on rights, either for humans or for animals.

InTime magazine named Singer one of themost influential people in the world, and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranked himrd among Global Thought Leaders for.
He has since slipped toth, He is known especially for his work on the ethics of our treatment of animals, for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life doctrine in bioethic Peter Singer is sometimes called "the worlds most influential living philosopher" although he thinks that if that is true, it doesn't say much for all the other living philosophers around today.
He has also been called the father or grandfather of the modern animal rights movement, even though he doesn't base his philosophical views on rights, either for humans or for animals.

InTime magazine named Singer one of themost influential people in the world, and the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute ranked himrd among Global Thought Leaders for.
He has since slipped toth, He is known especially for his work on the ethics of our treatment of animals, for his controversial critique of the sanctity of life doctrine in bioethics, and for his writings on the obligations of the affluent to aid those living in extreme poverty.

Singer first became well known internationally after the publication of Animal Liberation in, InTime included Animal Liberation on its “All TIME” list of thebest nonfiction books published in English since the magazine began, in.
Singer has written, co authored, edited or co edited thanbooks, including Practical Ethics The Expanding Circle How Are We to Live, Rethinking Life and Death, The Ethics of What We Eat with Jim Mason, The Point of View of the Universe with Katarzyna de Lazari Radek, The Most Good You Can Do, Ethics in the Real World and Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction.
His works have appeared in thanlanguages, Singers book The Life You

Can Save, first published in, led him to found a non profit organization of the same name, In, Singer got back the rights to the book and granted them to the organization, enabling it to make the eBook and audiobook versions available free from its website, sitelink www.
thelifeyoucansave. org. 

Peter Singer was born in Melbourne, Australia, in, and educated at the University of Melbourne and the University of Oxford, After teaching in England, the United States and Australia, he has, since, been Ira W, DeCamp Professor of Bioethics in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, He is married, with three daughters and four grandchildren, His recreations include hiking and surfing, Inhe was made a Companion of the Order of Australia, the nations highest civic honour, sitelink.