Early Empiricism, Therapeutic Motivation, and the Asymmetrical Dispute between the Hellenistic Medical Sects (2014)
Berrey, Marquis (Author)
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Volume: 47, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 141-171
Galen and the doxographical tradition portray the dispute between the Hellenistic medical sects as a symmetrical argument about the role of knowledge. I show a divide between doxographical accounts and surviving testimonia of the Hellenistic Empiricists. I argue that the dispute between the medical sects was asymmetric: for the Rationalists, it was a dispute about medical methodology; but for the Empiricists, the dispute concerned the conception and therapeutic purpose of medicine
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