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Salvarani, Luana, "The Quantification of Talents: Education, Galenic Humoralism, and Classification of Wits in Early Modern Culture", dins: Guidi, Simone - Braga, Joaquim (eds.), The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century: Intersections of Medicine and Philosophy, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine), 2023, pp. 69-87.

Resum

The connection between humoral theories and education postulated by Hippocratic and Galenic medicine, e.g. in Galen's Quod animi mores corporis temperamenta sequantur, was revived and rethought in the sixteenth century with a clear-cut political aim. Works such as Juan Huarte's Examen de Ingenios posited the physician/natural philosopher as Grandmaster of education, and advocated for humoral complexion and temperaments as the origin and determinants of talents and educability. In this paper, we aim to show the shift of educational responsibility from the preceptor to the physician and explain how degrees of temperaments designed a new, quantified idea of human identity and limited the role both of education and personal choice, in the era in which the Reformation deeply questioned the idea of human free will and the possibility for the individual to choose his own destiny and place in society.

Matèries

Galè
Història de la medicina

URL

https:/​/​link.springer.com/​chapter/​10.1007/​978-3-031 ...