According to Plato, the evils of the body cannot be cured without also curing the evils of the soul

Giovanni Reale

pp. 19-31

in: Paulina Taboada, Kateryna Fedoryka, Patricia Donohue-White (eds), Person, society and value, Berlin, Springer, 2002

Abstract

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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Plato