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The occasion for bringing together the articles in this volume was the conference Philosophy and Medicine – the History of Their Relations held at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 2018. The speakers’ speeches, of which most of the present articles are an elaboration, showed how enduring and, at the same time, diverse the relationship between philosophy and medicine was and is. Philosophy often dealt with the conditions proclaimed by philosophy for the legitimacy of medicine, the parallelism of the principles of both disciplines, one of which is to prevent disease and cure the human body, the other to overcome the imperfections of human cognition, but also with the conclusions that the progress of medicine has brought to philosophy. The authors of the dissertations in this volume reconstruct this broad spectrum of interrelationships, starting from the origins of philosophy, marked by the ancient tradition, through the turbulent development of medicine and philosophy in modern times up to the present day.
From the Editors
SPIS TREŚCI
Contents
From the Editors / 9
Reinhard Brandt, Introduction: “Cutting the Stone” / 11
Notes on the Authors / 15
Zbigniew Nerczuk, The Biological and Medical Sources of Protagoras’s
Thought (Plato, “Protagoras”, 334ac) / 21
Eszter Rembeczki, Concepts of Healing in Descartes’s Thought / 35
Ádám Smrcz, How Psychology and Philosophy Can Forge a Perfect Society, and Why They Cannot – The Case of Paul Dubois / 61
Tomasz Stegliński, Antoine Le Camus’s Naturalisation of the Soul and His Conception of the Medicine of the Mind / 75
Adam Grzeliński, John Locke and Philosophy as the Medicine of Human Understanding / 97
Alexander Becker, System and Science in Diderot / 121
Reinhard Brandt, Medicine and Philosophy – Immanuel Kant’s Rector’s Speech / 139
Werner Euler, “The Physician Is an Artist”. Theoretical and Practical Principles
of Reason as the Ground for a Philosophy of Medicine in Kant / 155
Luis Fellipe Garcia, Schelling and Röschlaub on the Concept of Life – At the Crossroads Between Philosophy and Medicine / 217
Gideon Stiening, Medizinische Anthropologien der Spätaufklärung. Anmerkungen zu Ernst Platners und Johann Daniel Metzgers Versuchen der Vermittlung von Philosophie und Medizin / 241
Paweł Pasieka, Causality in Medicine in the 19th Century / 301
Jolanta Żelazna, The Mind. Descartes’s Conception in the Light of the Hypothesis by António Rose Damásio / 329
Mirosław Żelazny, The Problem of Suicide in the Philosophy of Karl Jaspers / 349