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What Is the Role of Pain in Human Life? A Lesson from Classical Greek Philosophy and Medicine

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F23%3A10479002" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/23:10479002 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=O3TQiV-37X" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=O3TQiV-37X</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    What Is the Role of Pain in Human Life? A Lesson from Classical Greek Philosophy and Medicine

  • Original language description

    In this paper, I examine the role of pain in classical Greek medicine and philosophy (ca. 450-300 BCE). I explore how Greek physicians and medical authors, whose texts are preserved in the so-called Corpus Hippocraticum, conceptualized pain. I present the role of pain in their explanations of the functioning of the human body, in diagnosis, and in therapy. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the framework for understanding pain used by these physicians can also be recognized in the philosophical ideas of Plato and Aristotle. Both physicians and philosophers are confronted with the question of how to integrate pain into broader theories of a meaningful world. Although it may initially seem that medicine approaches pain significantly differently from philosophy, I show that the basic schema is the same: pain needs to be understood, integrated, and, if possible, utilized for some beneficial purpose. Given that the nature of human life is such that certain positive aspects are necessarily connected to pain (such as childbirth, menstruation, exercise, education, and corrective punishment), the question arises regarding the role of pain, its causes, significance, and meaning. I demonstrate that while physicians and philosophers differ in their specific answers, they share the questions they ask about pain and the field in which they encounter these questions. Thus, this paper not only sheds light on the specific question concerning the role of pain in ancient medicine and philosophy but also, secondarily, on the relationship between these two domains of human knowledge and practice.

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  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA22-11418S" target="_blank" >GA22-11418S: Mixing Body and Soul</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2023

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Eirene

  • ISSN

    0046-1628

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    59

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    I-II

  • Country of publishing house

    CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

  • Number of pages

    31

  • Pages from-to

    99-129

  • UT code for WoS article

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database