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HoP 127 - Peter E Pormann on Medicine in the Islamic World

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Razi's Medical Output Is Intention With Philosophy

Razi was both a doctor and a philosopher. We have quite a lot of medical writings of his some philosophical writing so along with Ava Senna he's a thinker for whom we have both sides represented. He stands in a long philosophical tradition I mean even Epicureans were wary of sex but certainly the Stoics were too they just said you know like don't seek the pleasures of the flesh because they might go away or they might give you grief.

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