“Politics, diet and health in the Seventh Letter’s medical análogon”

This article pretends to provide a reading of the Seventh Letter focused on the role that medical terminology plays in it. Leaving aside the unsolvable enigma of Plato’s authorship, the letter shows evident connections with fundamental topics from the “last” Plato, particularly in its political aspe...

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Autor: Cano Cuenca, Jorge
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Perú
Institución:Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Repositorio:Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/11105
Acceso en línea:http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/11105
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Hippocratic medicine
classical political theory
Ancient Greece
Plato
tyranny
medicina hipocrática
teoría política clásica
Magna Grecia
Platón
tiranía
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Sumario:This article pretends to provide a reading of the Seventh Letter focused on the role that medical terminology plays in it. Leaving aside the unsolvable enigma of Plato’s authorship, the letter shows evident connections with fundamental topics from the “last” Plato, particularly in its political aspects. In many passages of the Seventh Letter, the figure of the philosopher as an educator appears covered with medical aspects, and the political situation is defined as a pathology that we must treat according to a therapeutic methodology.