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Ideas of Galen, by Text
[Greek, 129 - 200, Born at Pergamum. Settled in Rome at the age of 40, and died there. Doctor and medical thinker, who left many writings.]
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On Medical Experience
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p.42
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7453
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Galen's medicine followed the mean; each illness was balanced by opposite treatment [Hacking]
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170
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On Hippocrates and Plato
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p.243
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6003
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Galen showed by experiment that the brain controls the body [Hankinson]
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5.5.8
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p.415
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6030
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Each part of the soul has its virtue - pleasure for appetite, success for competition, and rectitude for reason
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170
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On the Natural Faculties
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I.iv
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p.9
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We just use the word 'faculty' when we don't know the psychological cause
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170
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An Outline of Empiricism
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87.4-9.28ff
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p.3
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23248
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Early empiricists said reason was just a useless concept introduced by philosophers [Frede,M]
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170
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The soul's dependence on the body
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p.23
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23219
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Stopping the heart doesn't terminate activity; pressing the brain does that [Cobb]
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p.25
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23220
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The brain contains memory and reason, and is the source of sensation and decision
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Kiv.11.816
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p.173
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23268
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We execute irredeemable people, to protect ourselves, as a deterrent, and ending a bad life
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Kiv.11.817
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p.173
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23269
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Philosophy must start from clearly observed facts
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Kiv.2.769
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p.151
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23264
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Philosophers think faculties are in substances, and invent a faculty for every activity
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Kiv.2.772
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p.152
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23265
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The rational part of the soul is the desire for truth, understanding and recollection
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Kiv.2.772
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p.152
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23266
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The spirit in the soul wants freedom, power and honour
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