Upbringing and later innate knowledge

educandus; adolescat; sapere; intelligere; discere; educare

The alleged homunculus is initially to be brought up like another child until it matures and begins to understand.

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Nine Books on the Nature of Things

Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026

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Meaning

The alleged homunculus is initially to be brought up like another child until it matures and begins to understand. Later the extraordinary beings associated with such origins are said to need no instruction because art is innate in them. These statements occur at different points of the account. A summary that attributes complete knowledge to the first infant immediately would erase the stated sequence of care, maturation and extraordinary later capacities.

Places to read

  1. Book 1 · Generation · Passage 9Latin“summa diligentia & studio educandus est”