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Darrera modificació: 2010-02-17
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Eiximenis
Shogimen, Takashi, "«Head or heart?» revisited: physiology and political thought in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries", History of Political Thought, 28/2 (2007), 208-229.
- Resum
- Medical metaphors pervade medieval European political writings. No attempt has been made to establish the relationship between bodily imageries of the political community and anatomical and/or physiological knowledge. A survey of bodily metaphors shows that the primacy of the head of the body politic was challenged at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries by an alternative view: the pre-eminence of the heart. This coincided with the penetration of Aristotelian physiology into scholastic medicine, which triggered debates over the most important member of the body natural: is it the head or the heart? The medical inspiration for the conceptualization of the body politic illustrates the great impact of the 'Aristotelian revolution' in medieval political thought.
- Matèries
- Filosofia moral - Política
Medicina
Eiximenis, Francesc
- Notes
- Disponible a http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/imp/hpt/2007/ ...
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