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Plato's Rivalry with Medicine : a Struggle and Its Dissolution.
While scholars typically view Plato's engagement with medicine as uniform and largely positive, Susan B. Levin argues that from the Gorgias through the Laws, his handling of medicine unfolds in several key phases. Further, she shows that Plato views medicine as an important rival for authority...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Terms; Introduction; 1. The Gorgias' Innovative Lens on Human Existence; 1. Introduction; 2. Technai versus Empeiriai: The Gorgias' Account of What Is and Is Not Worth Doing; 3. The Gorgias' Soul-Body Division; 4. Goods Set Apart from the Good; 5. Hedonism and Antithetical Ways of Life; 6. Order as the Key to Virtue and the Good; 7. The Gorgias on Punishment; 8. Gorgias 517d-518a and the Dialogue's Final Hierarchy of Human Endeavors; 9. The Gorgias' Preeminent Technê of Politics; 2. Medicine in the Gorgias: A Collision Course with Philosophy Is Set.
- 1. Introduction2. Medicine's Role as Aid and Support to the Gorgias' Castigation of Rhetoric; 3. Taking Stock of the Gorgias' Parallels and Debts to Medical Writings; 4. The Roots of What Will Become Plato's Head-On Rivalry with Medicine; 4.1. Medicine on the Highest Good and the Big Three Epithumiai; 4.2. Pain; 4.3. Soul; 4.4. Microcosmic Hubris; 5. Looking Ahead; 3. Eryximachus' Tale: The Symposium's Challenge to Medicine's Preeminence; 1. Introduction; 2. Eryximachus as Emcee?; 3. Macrocosmic Occupations: The Logos of Eryximachus and Its Hippocratic Backdrop.
- 4. Eryximachus' Appropriation and Critique of Heraclitus and Anaximander5. Desire, Self-Indulgence, and Self-Control: Eryximachus and Aretê; 6. The Field of Technai: Eryximachus' Loose Construction; 7. Concluding Thoughts: Eryximachus' and Our Own; 4. Justice and the Good in Kallipolis: Medicine's Ejection from the Ranks of Technai; 1. Introduction; 2. The Hippocratic Backdrop; 2.1. Treatments; 2.2. Conditions; 2.3. Nondisease Impairments; 3. The Republic's Account of Medical Practice; 4. Philosophers, the Big Three, and the Soul-Body Tie; 5. Infallible Philosophers and the Good.
- 6. Medicine a Technê No More7. The Republic's Hierarchy of Human Endeavors and Medicine's Distinctiveness; 8. A Brief Look Ahead; 5. Approaching the Laws by Way of the Statesman; 1. Introduction; 2. Human Capacity in the Statesman and Republic Compared; 3. The Statesman on Human Endeavors; 4. Medicine in the Statesman and Its Sociopolitical Milieu; 5. Phusis and (In)Fallibility: The Laws and Republic Contrasted; 6. The Touchstone of Magnesia's Quest for Unity; 7. Maintaining Magnesia: The Nocturnal Council as Philosopher-Rulers or Closely Akin Thereto?; 7.1. Revising the Law.
- 7.2. Magistrates' Corruptibility7.3. The Nocturnal Council's Fallibility as a Judge of Character; 7.4. Magnesia's Own Cognitive Resources are Insufficient; 7.5. Cognitive Adequacy and the Council; 8. Conclusion; 6. Medicine in the Laws: A Rivalry Dissolved; 1. Introduction; 2. The Laws' Opposition to Rhetoricians/Sophists and Poets; 3. Medicine in the Laws; 4. Magnesia's Ordinary Citizens Front and Center; 5. Noncitizens' Enhanced Position in Magnesia; 6. The Gorgias' Uncertainty Resolved; 7. Plato's Legacy to Contemporary Bioethics; 1. Introduction.