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Darrera modificació: 2025-09-17
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Cooper, Glen M., "Healing the ‘Body Politic': Medical Dimensions of Political Thought in the Greek, Arabic, and Byzantine Traditions", dins: Oberhelman. Steven M. (ed.), Tome 3: Remedies. Pharmacy, Drugs, Archaeology, Tradition, Berlín, De Gruyter (Medical Traditions, 6-3), 2025, pp. 423-440.
- Resum
- Metaphors serve as essential tools for conveying scientific and philosophical concepts. To facilitate our discussion of the Body Politic, it is crucial to clarify the basic theory of metaphor as it relates to this particular metaphor. Aristotle's systematic account of metaphor in Western tradition forms the foundation of our understanding. A contemporary approach to analyzing metaphors, using Source and Target domains, allows one to illuminate the less familiar Target by drawing upon the better-known Source. In this context, the Body Politic metaphor establishes a connection between the concepts of Body and State or City. Historically, this metaphor has operated in two directions: “The Body is a State” or “The State is a Body”, depending on the author's intentions, with Body and City serving as Source and Target interchangeably. However, this relationship is not symmetrical, as each direction offers distinct insights into the City or the Body. For instance, the “The City is a Body” metaphor seeks to explore the nature of the City by drawing parallels with the already understood characteristics of the Body, such as its anatomical structure and physiological interactions among its components. Conversely, the “The Body is a City” metaphor aims to investigate the nature of the body in terms of the political and social dynamics of the City. In general, the directionalities of “The Body is a State” and “The State is a Body” have both been useful to the realms of medicine and political philosophy, respectively. That is, scholars interested in political philosophy typically favor “The State is a Body”, while those with a medical focus prefer " The Body State".
- Matèries
- Història - Política
Història de la medicina
Aristòtil
- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110780062-018
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