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- Title
Who is the Patient in Plato's Dialogues?
- Authors
ROTARU, Tudor-Ştefan
- Abstract
Throughout his Dialogues, Plato speaks about medicine in many ways and with many purposes. Asking about the patient in Plato's "medical" thinking requires an analysis about the meanings of the term "patient" as we understand it today as well as how it might have been understood by the philosopher. It also connects with other important terms like "care". The paper makes a short analysis of five examples where Plato speaks about ailments, cures and care: Laches (185d-e), Charmides (156d-e), Symposium (186b-d), Phaidros (244d) and two examples in the Laws (733d-e and 854b-c). The discussion concludes that the "patient" in Plato's Dialogues might be whatever part of a body, a soul or a community which got dislocated from the metaphysical order of the whole and needs to be restored in its proper place and function.
- Subjects
BIOETHICS; PHYSICIAN-patient relations; METAPHYSICS
- Publication
Hermeneia: Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory & Criticism, 2018, Issue 21, p227
- ISSN
1453-9047
- Publication type
Article