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According to Plato, the Evils of the Body Cannot be Cured without also Curing the Evils of the Soul

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Person, Society and Value

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Plato knew well the medicine of his time. He also had his own form of a philosophy of medicine containing intuitions of extraordinary significance and a core of truth which in certain respects remains largely valid today. I will investigate this point in two of Plato’s dialogues: the Charmides, which dates from his youth, and the Timaeus, his last published work.

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  1. Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, Italy

    Giovanni Reale

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  1. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

    Paulina Taboada (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  2. Arlington, Massachusetts, USA

    Kateryna Fedoryka Cuddeback

  3. Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, USA

    Patricia Donohue-White (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Reale, G. (2002). According to Plato, the Evils of the Body Cannot be Cured without also Curing the Evils of the Soul. In: Taboada, P., Cuddeback, K.F., Donohue-White, P. (eds) Person, Society and Value. Philosophy and Medicine, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2570-5_2

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