MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

186 Aristotle and his school which are caused by actual perceptions – not, such as in dreams, by lingering sense-movements which ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 187 Before considering the difficulties that arise here, let us first consider Aristotle’s methodo ...

188 Aristotle and his school 9. Foresight is characteristic of people who are prone to anger or to melancholics ( 464 a 24 – 7 ; ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 189 dreamer) it is very likely that all we are dealing with is a coincidence of two occurrences wi ...

190 Aristotle and his school The rationale for this seems to be as follows. If the gods really granted knowledge of the future t ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 191 Homer, in the well-known metaphor of the gates of horn and ivory in the Odyssey( 19. 560 ff.), ...

192 Aristotle and his school the opposite from what one would expect if it were sent by a god, that is, among the poor, who are ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 193 opposed to a non-expert, theoretical approach, that is, between knowledge being pursued with a ...

194 Aristotle and his school It is further the task of the student of nature to study the first principles of health and disease ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 195 attention to the study of the human body. Therefore the student of politics should also study ...

196 Aristotle and his school Aristotle also recognises that the latter are often more successful in practical therapy than the f ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 197 also recognises that even medicine may contribute to the study of na- ture (a fact he hardly c ...

198 Aristotle and his school small movements escape our notice because they are overruled by more powerful ones, whereas in slee ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 199 For when the body is awake, the soul is its servant: it is divided among many parts of the bod ...

200 Aristotle and his school But the problem is that the empirical examples of this mechanism given in the following lines seem ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 201 However, a similar problem presents itself further down in the text, when Aristotle considers ...

202 Aristotle and his school at night and because in sleep we perceive these slight movements more clearly than in the waking st ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 203 an argumentative, ‘dialectic’ or perhaps even didactic strategy (we should not forget that Ari ...

204 Aristotle and his school This polemical nature may also be related to the fact that Aristotle has a rather low estimation of ...

Aristotle on sleep and dreams 205 the beginning can better be understood both in the light of the framework of the study of natu ...