Pathologies and the Healing of the soul: medical terms as metaphors in philosophy.
Avicenna
Critique
Metaphors
Philosophy of medicine
Journal
Medicine, health care, and philosophy
ISSN: 1572-8633
Titre abrégé: Med Health Care Philos
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 9815900
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2022
Dec 2022
Historique:
received:
03
01
2022
accepted:
06
06
2022
revised:
01
05
2022
pubmed:
19
7
2022
medline:
1
11
2022
entrez:
18
7
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This paper critically examines the metaphorical use of medical terms in philosophy. Three examples selected from distinct philosophical contexts demonstrate that such terms have been employed as metaphors both to describe the practice of philosophising and historically to diagnose philosophical positions. The selected examples are (i) the title of Avicenna's main philosophical work, The Book of Healing, (ii) the criticism of medical metaphors in Enlightenment philosophy, and (iii) recent historical diagnoses in philosophy. The underlying epistemological assumptions of all three contexts are reconstructed to critically analyse the medical metaphors. Through this tripartite synopsis, I arrive at a normative conclusions medical metaphors, such as the "healing of the soul" or "pathology of reason", do not stand up to the critique of Enlightenment and are obsolete against the theoretical background of my reference texts.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35849217
doi: 10.1007/s11019-022-10099-8
pii: 10.1007/s11019-022-10099-8
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
579-586Informations de copyright
© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
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