Plato's rivalry with medicine: a struggle and its dissolution

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Susan B. Levin argues that Plato's engagement with medicine is richer than previously recognised and that he views it as an important rival for authority on nature and flourishing. She further shows that Plato's work, particularly the 'Laws', holds significant promise for bioethics that has so far been nearly untapped.

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Full title :Plato's rivalry with medicine : a struggle and its dissolution / Susan B. Levin.

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Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 299 pages ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199919802, 0199919801
oclc:ocn866619961
LC Classification:B398.M38
Dewey Decimal:184

The Gorgias' innovative lens on human existence -- Medicine in the Gorgias : a collision course with philosophy is set -- Eryximachus' tale : the Symposium's challenge to medicine's preeminence -- Justice and the Good in Kallipolis : medicine's ejection from the ranks of Technai -- Approaching the Laws by way of the Statesman -- Maintaining Magnesia : the nocturnal council as philosopher-rulers or closely akin thereto? -- Medicine in the Laws : a rivalry dissolved -- Plato's legacy to contemporary bioethics.

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Bioethics Bioéthique Ethics, Medical Éthique médicale Médecine -- Philosophie Medical ethics Medicine -- Philosophy Medizin Philosophy, Medical Plato Wissenschaft