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On the Therapeutic Method, Books I and II (Hardcover)
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On the Therapeutic Method, Books I and II (Hardcover)
Series: Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers
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Clarendon Later Ancient Philosophers General Editors: Professor
Jonathan Barnes, Balliol College, Oxford, and Professor A. A. Long,
University of California, Berkeley This series, which is modelled
on the familiar Clarendon Aristotle and Clarendon Plato Series, is
designed to encourage philosophers and students of philosophy to
explore the fertile terrain of later ancient philosophy. The texts
will range in date from the first century BC to the fifth century
AD, and they will cover all the parts and all the schools of
philosophy. Each volume will contain a substantial introduction, an
English translation, and a critical commentary on the philosophical
claims and arguments of the text. The translations will aim
primarily at accuracy and fidelity; but they will also be readable
and accompanied by notes on textual problems that affect the
philosophical interpretation. No knowledge of Greek or Latin will
be assumed. Galen's On the Therapeutic Method, written late in his
life, represents the distillation in its most complete form of
Galen's views on the nature, genesis, proper classification, and
treatment of disease. It was one of the most widely read of all
classical texts during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and
formed the core of the medical curriculum until the seventeenth
century. Although still deeply influential in the nineteenth
century, it has been unjustly neglected in modern times. The work
contains a fascinating collection of views on scientific
terminology and taxonomy, the application of the logical methods of
collection and division to science, the axiomatization of science,
and the structure of causation. Consequently it is a key text in
later Greek philosophy of science. R. J. Hankinson provides here
the first translation into any modern language of the first two
books, together with an introduction and a philosophical
commentary.
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