History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 134 - Balancing Acts - Arabic Ethical Literature
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Ethics as Medicine
- Ethical advice was part of ancient medicine, blurring the lines between physical and mental care.
- Like physical health, ethical health involved balancing different parts of the soul, according to Galen.
The Date Glutton
- Arrazi tells of a glutton who, after overeating dates, wished to start again despite the pain.
- Arrazi used this to illustrate the human tendency towards immoderate desires.
Pleasure and Reason
- Arrazi believed pleasure is merely the restoration of the body to its natural state.
- True happiness, he argued, lies in a life of reason, separate from the body.