On Medicine and Philosophy on The Plato’s Symposium: The question of epistême

• Autor(a) principal: Gazolla, Rachel
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Hypnos
• Texto Completo: https://hypnos.org.br/index.php/hypnos/article/view/527
• topic: Plato; Medicine; epistême; physis; Platão; Medicina; epistême; physis

This article analyzes Plato’s Symposium in order to understand the presence, in the dialogue, of the symposiasts doctor, Eryximachus. It will be argued that medicine, as the practice of a specialized and methodical knowledge, is interested in the Platonic idea of epistême. This new medical knowledge is considered also a epistême. We judge by the way medicine is presented through personages and passages in the Hippocratic corpus, we obtain a specification of the Platonic investigation and a new angle on the notion of physis as being, primarily, psychê. Plato’s particularizing of epistême, which moves it beyond the level of knowledge of a téchnê, illuminate the question of health and disease, as regard both the body and the soul, on the basis of Plato’s new reflection on physis –psychê.