
HoP 076 - R.J. Hankinson on Galen
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Best Doctor Has to Be a Philosopher
Go says that the best doctor has to be a philosopher. He thinks you can't really understand what's going on unless you have a thorough understanding of the physical basis of the body and a tense of what can go wrong with it. So that is the reason why he thinks you need to have a background in physics. And finally ethics, he says, rather than spending passage that you can't possibly hope to make any serious advance in matters like this unless you're extremely hardworking industrious.
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