History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 013 - Good Humor Men - the Hippocratics
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Dec 27, 2010 AI Snips
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Hippocrates and the Corpus
- Hippocrates is known as the father of medicine though we can't say exactly which works he wrote.
- The Hippocratic Corpus represents the earliest important Greek medical literature blending medicine and philosophy.
Medicine and Philosophy Linked
- Greek medicine and philosophy were closely related, both flourishing in the Ionian region.
- The Hippocratic Corpus is written in Ionic Greek, showing links between medicine and presocratic philosophy.
Epilepsy and Divine Rationality
- The Hippocratic treatise on epilepsy rejects divine causation, explaining diseases have natural causes.
- Disease is seen as divine because natural forces causing it are divine, emphasizing rational piety.