MEDICINE AND PHILOSOPHY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY

146 Aristotle and his school Moreover, a check of all the occurrences ofeuthuoneirosandeuthuoneiria^31 in Greek literature prove ...

Aristotle on melancholy 147 Sleep(which makes no mention ofpneumaand blood at all and which otherwise shows a lack of physiologi ...

148 Aristotle and his school Another notable remark on the physiology of the melancholic (Insomn. 461 a 23 – 4 ) is that melanch ...

Aristotle on melancholy 149 Aristotle distinguishes between two types of lack of self-control: on the one hand recklessness (pro ...

150 Aristotle and his school for the reckless type. In lines 27 – 8 , the lack of self-control of melancholics (i.e. their reckl ...

Aristotle on melancholy 151 For people constantly feel pleasure in their youth because they are growing; con- versely, melanchol ...

152 Aristotle and his school The remark about the strong desires of melancholics, with their resulting lack of discipline, is co ...

Aristotle on melancholy 153 It is not certain, but neither is it impossible, that the bile ‘that is situated in the other parts ...

154 Aristotle and his school which it began to play an important part in nosology.^57 Therefore, both in its thought and in its ...

Aristotle on melancholy 155 difficult to assess his dependence on sources in general and his attitude towards the Hippocratic wr ...

156 Aristotle and his school the idea thatall(pantes) ‘extraordinary’ (perittoi) men are melancholics. The subsequent discussion ...

Aristotle on melancholy 157 between melancholy and extraordinary achievement ( 36 ff.).^64 The possible grounds for this arrange ...

158 Aristotle and his school to a large extent determine it (the so-called ‘character-affecting aspect’,to ̄ethopoion, of human ...

Aristotle on melancholy 159 to mood changes and desires, and some become more talkative. Those, however, who have reached a ‘mea ...

160 Aristotle and his school ( 954 a 34 ff.),^73 yet this seems to leave room for the possibility of bile being in other places ...

Aristotle on melancholy 161 wherever possible. The thoughts that are expressed and sometimes even their literal wording show a n ...

162 Aristotle and his school to use it as a starting point for a discussion on the instability (anomalia ̄ )of the melancholic n ...

Aristotle on melancholy 163 melancholics the ability of deliberation and rational thought (see the pas- sages fromNicomachean Et ...

164 Aristotle and his school only closer to reason than other melancholics; they remain ‘eccentric’ (for melancholics arefundame ...

Aristotle on melancholy 165 Aristotle frequently uses the wordeuphuia. An illuminating example of this notion is Aristotle’s fre ...