Plato's rivalry with medicine : a struggle and its dissolution / Susan B. Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levin, Susan B., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Plato.

Medicine--Philosophy.

Medicine.

Medical ethics.

Bioethics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 299 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]

Contents:

1 The Gorgias' Innovative Lens on Human Existence 5

1 Introduction 5

2 Technai Versus Empeiriai: The Gorgias' Account of What Is and Is Not Worth Doing 7

3 The Gorgias' Soul-Body Division 20

4 Goods Set Apart from the Good 21

5 Hedonism and Antithetical ways of life 24

6 Order as the Key to Virtue and the Good 29

7 The Gorgias on Punishment 31

8 Gorgias 517d-518a and the Dialogue's Final Hierarchy of Human Endeavors 35

9 The Gorgias' Preeminent Techne of Politics 38

2 Medicine in the Gorgias: A Collision Course with Philosophy Is Set 41

1 Introduction 41

2 Medicine's Role as Aid and Support to the Gorgias' Castigation of Rhetoric 42

3 Taking Stock of the Gorgias' Parallels and Debts to Medical Writings 52

4 The Roots of What Will Become Plato's Head-On Rivalry with Medicine 54

4.1 Medicine on the Highest Good and the Big Three Epithumiai 54

4.2 Pain 62

4.3 Soul 64 3 4.4 Microcosmic Hubris 66 2 5 Looking Ahead 69

3 Eryximachus' Tale: The Symposium's Challenge to Medicine's Preeminence 73

1 Introduction 73

2 Eryximachus as Emceee? 75

3 Macrocosmic Occupations: The Logos of Eryximachus and Its Hippocratic Backdrop 79

4 Eryximachus' Appropriation and Critique of Heraclitus and Anaximander 84

5 Desire, Self-Indulgence, and Self-Control: Eryximachus and Arete 96

6 The Field of Technai: Eryximachus' Loose Construction 104

7 Concluding Thoughts: Eryximachus' and Our Own 108

4 Justice and the God in Kallipolis: Medicine's Ejection from the Ranks of Technai 110

1 Introduction 110

2 The Hippocratic Backdrop 111

2.1 Treatments 111

2.2 Conditions 112

2.3 Nondisease Impairments 114

3 The Republics Account of Medical Practice 115

4 Philosophers, the Big Three, and the Soul-Body Tie 122

5 Infallible Philosophers and the Good 128

6 Medicine a Techné No More 135

7 The Republic Hierarchy of Human Endeavors and Medicine's Distinctiveness 139

8 A Brief Look Ahead 140

5 Approaching the Laws by Way of the Statesman 142

1 Introduction 142

2 Human Capacity in the Statesman and Republic Compared 144

3 The Statesman on Human Endeavors 149

4 Medicine in the Statesman and its Sociopolitical Milieu 154

5 Phusis and (In) Fallibility: The Laws and Republic Contrasted 158

6 The Touchstone of Magnesia's Quest for Unity 161

7 Maintaining Magnesia: The Nocturnal Council as Philosopher-Rulers or Closely Akin Thereto? 164

7.1 Revising the Law 165

7.2 Magistrates' Corruptibility 167

7.3 The Nocturnal Council's Fallibility as a Judge of Character 171

7.4 Magnesia's Own Cognitive Resources are Insufficient 173

7.5 Cognitive Adequacy and the Council 174

8 Conclusion 176

6 Medicine in the Laws: A Rivalry Dissolved 177

1 Introduction 177

2 The Laws' Opposition to Rhetoricians/Sophists and Poets 178

3 Medicine in the Laws 181

4 Magnesia's Ordinary Citizens Front and Center 190

5 Noncitizens' Enhanced Position in Magnesia 195

6 The Gorgias' Uncertainty Resolved 206

7 Plato's Legacy to Contemporary Bioethics 212

1 Introduction 212

2 Entrenchment in Bioethics' Quest for Alternatives: Two Prominent Illustrations 213

3 Avoiding Scylla and Charybdis: Aristotle to the Rescue? 219

4 Bioethics and Plato Thus Far 225

5 Preconditions of True Doctor-Patient Collaboration: Grounding an Appeal to Plato 227

6 Bioethics Compared with the Laws on Human Fallibility 228

7 Parity and Paideia 235

8 Paideia and Medical School: Island or Way Station? 240

9 Paideia and (Im) Moral Incentives 242

10 Transparency and Accountability: The Who and What of Knowing 248

11 Veatch and Brody on Laypeople's Values Contributions 252

12 Conclusions 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199919802

0199919801

OCLC:

866619961