Plato's Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b-90d
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11240%2F24%3A10488826" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11240/24:10488826 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=tA1PdpfPZ8" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=tA1PdpfPZ8</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733823-20240105" target="_blank" >10.1163/15733823-20240105</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Plato's Dietetics for Intellectuals in Timaeus 86b-90d
Original language description
In this paper I focus on the dietetic discussion at the end of the Timaeus (86b-90d) and read it against the background of the medical dietetics of its day. I try to show that Plato's version of dietetics is deeply rooted in the preceding medical tradition and that it draws in particular on ideas attested in the Hippocratic treatises On Regimen and Airs, Waters, Places. On the other hand, I also argue that Plato is most likely the first author ever to identify intellectuals as a specific dietetic category and to propose a preventive regimen adapted to the specific needs of mathematicians, philosophers, and other men of letters. Therefore, his dietetic discussion in the Timaeus deserves recognition as an important contribution to the history of dietetic therapy and prevention.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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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
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Early Science and Medicine
ISSN
1383-7427
e-ISSN
1573-3823
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
21
Pages from-to
209-229
UT code for WoS article
001268534400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85198516118