De elementis, 5, 14-16 : la tetrapharmakos et l’épistémologie galénique du mélange

De elementis, 5, 14-16 : la tetrapharmakos et l’épistémologie galénique du mélange

I wish to find the sources of the reference to the tetrapharmakos made by Galen in De elementis, in order to throw light on the exact status of the argument used by Galen. The source is likely to be Stoic, but kindred details are also found in the Anonymus londinensis. Galen manipulates the Stoic co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Julie Giovacchini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ENS Éditions 2017-11-01
Series:Aitia : Regards sur la Culture Hellénistique au XXIe Siècle
Subjects:
Galen
tetrapharmakos
Chrysippus
Anonymous of London
total mixture
epistemology of medicine
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/aitia/1899
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Summary:I wish to find the sources of the reference to the tetrapharmakos made by Galen in De elementis, in order to throw light on the exact status of the argument used by Galen. The source is likely to be Stoic, but kindred details are also found in the Anonymus londinensis. Galen manipulates the Stoic concepts, and makes an epistemological, rather than physical, use of the paradigm of fusional blending, which has to be distinguished from the so-called “total” blending which shall be used further on in the treatise to conceptualise Galen's own humoral theory.
ISSN:1775-4275

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