Fabrizio Amerini is Professor in the Department of Classics, Languages, Education, and Philosophy at the University of Parma. Mark Henninger is Professor of Philosophy and Martin Chair of Medieval Philosophy at Georgetown University.

Erudite, thoughtful, [and] carefully translated… Amerini exposes the ‘tensions’ and ‘vacillations’ in Aquinas’s abstruse accounts of human embryogenesis. But their main point is clear: the inseminating male initiates a process that, while it leads to the conception of a pre-human uterine animal, does not actually generate another human being.

Fabrizio Amerini is Professor in the Department of Classics, Languages, Education, and Philosophy at the University of Parma. Mark Henninger is Professor of Philosophy and Martin Chair of Medieval Philosophy at Georgetown University.

Erudite, thoughtful, [and] carefully translated… Amerini exposes the ‘tensions’ and ‘vacillations’ in Aquinas’s abstruse accounts of human embryogenesis. But their main point is clear: the inseminating male initiates a process that, while it leads to the conception of a pre-human uterine animal, does not actually generate another human being.

Fabrizio Amerini is Professor in the Department of Classics, Languages, Education, and Philosophy at the University of Parma. Mark Henninger is Professor of Philosophy and Martin Chair of Medieval Philosophy at Georgetown University.

Erudite, thoughtful, [and] carefully translated… Amerini exposes the ‘tensions’ and ‘vacillations’ in Aquinas’s abstruse accounts of human embryogenesis. But their main point is clear: the inseminating male initiates a process that, while it leads to the conception of a pre-human uterine animal, does not actually generate another human being.