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I. The Monk Dissected I. The Monk Dissected
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An Anxious Confession An Anxious Confession
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Vocabulary as Anatomical Theatre Vocabulary as Anatomical Theatre
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The Waterwheel of Thoughts The Waterwheel of Thoughts
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Demons and the Frontiers of Interiority Demons and the Frontiers of Interiority
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Affectus, not Effectus Affectus, not Effectus
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II. The Oozing Humor of Vice II. The Oozing Humor of Vice
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The Fight for Canaan with Evagrius and Origen The Fight for Canaan with Evagrius and Origen
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A Passion for Lists A Passion for Lists
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Passion-Lists Passion-Lists
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Vice-Lists Vice-Lists
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A First Attempt at Nosology: Abba Serapion’s Catalogues A First Attempt at Nosology: Abba Serapion’s Catalogues
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Toward a New Nosology: Aristotle, Evagrius, and Cassian on the Soul Toward a New Nosology: Aristotle, Evagrius, and Cassian on the Soul
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III. Vice, Considered Capite ad Calcem III. Vice, Considered Capite ad Calcem
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IV. Conclusion IV. Conclusion
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Nosology in Action Nosology in Action
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Christ the Picture of Health Christ the Picture of Health
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Back to Egypt Back to Egypt
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4 John Cassian’s Nosology of the Soul
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Published:October 2022
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Abstract
This chapter continues studies of Cassian while shifting focus from dreams to passions, or vices (vitia). Cassian develops Evagrius’ “eight wicked thoughts” into the “eight principal vices.” He experiments over the course of the Conferences with several ways of organizing these and other related vices, though he generally relies on taxonomic approaches that differentiate between genera (the principal vices) and species (more specific manifestations). Cassian’s approach is best contextualized against Evagrius and wider traditions of organizing passions, virtues, and vices, in lists. However, Cassian inflects his lists of vices through a diagnostic study of thoughts and strong emotions as exteriorizations of interior dispositions. Thus, he ultimately hangs the eight principal vices on the tripartite soul in a complex medical analogy that provides a stable nosology of passions, relating transient emotional states to biopsychosocial disorders in interior dispositions.
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