Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul

Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation between Body and Soul

Vinkesteijn, Robert

Brill

09/2022

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9789004520875

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Contents


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations and Other Notes


Introduction





1 The Cultivation of the Soul in a 'Physicalist' World


?Ethical Philosophy in Galen's QAM


?Introduction


?1?Aristotle and the Non-rational Parts of the Soul


?2?Plato and the Rational Part of the Soul


?3?Positioning in the Scholarly Debate


?4?The Possible Continuity in the Divine and Human Formation of the Bodily Mixture


?Conclusion





2 Galen on the Nature of Man


?Introduction


?1?The Primary Substance


?2?Divisio ad principes: a Hippocratic-Platonic Method


?3?Elements and Qualities


?4?Grades and Shades of Nature


?5?Nature of the Body, Nature of the Soul


?Conclusion





3 Soul, Mixture and Galen's Timaeus


?Introduction


?1?Sources


?2?Scope of the Commentary


?3?Basic Tendencies in Galen's Interpretation of the Timaeus


?4?Comparing Galen's Timaeus to the Larrain Fragments


?Conclusion





4 Galen on Black Bile and Melancholy


?Introduction


?1?Precedents


?2?Galen on Black Bile


?3?Galen on Melancholy


?Conclusion on Black Bile and Melancholy





General Conclusion


Bibliography


Index
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Melancholy; Timaeus; black bile; humoural theory; mixture; ousia; philosophy and medicine