- Issue
- Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2020 13 (8)
- Authors
- Koptseva, Natalia P.; Reznikova, Ksenia V.
- Contact information
- Koptseva, Natalia P.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000–0003–3910–7991; Reznikova, Ksenia V.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; ; ORCID: 0000–0003–0889–4582
- Keywords
- Plato; Aristotle; Aquinas; Proclus Dyadochus; Claudius Galen; “Timaeus”; “Republic”; “Nicomachean Ethics”; ancient science; the scientific method of Galen; Comments on “Timaeus”; Comments “On the Doctrines of Hippocrates and Plato”
- Abstract
The article discusses methodology of ancient natural science based on the analysis of the fragment 29cd from Plato’s “Timaeus” and Comments on this fragment, which were written by Proclus Dyadochus. Particular focus is on the Plato’s views on science as “plausible myth”, “probable narration”, εἰκότα μῦθον. The authors also consider the concept of διάνοια, “dianoetic virtue” in the “Nicomachean Ethics” by Aristotle and Aquinas’ Comments on fragments of the“Nicomachean Ethics” where “dianoetic virtues” are examined. Scientific and medical treatises of the great ancient physician Claudius Galen are defined in this article as universal standard of scientific knowledge. The second chapter of the Galen’s Treatise “Περι των Іπποκράτογς και Πλατωνος δογματων” is seen in more detail so that the main constituents of the Galen’s scientific method get a full coverage
- Pages
- 1317–1337
- DOI
- 10.17516/1997-1370-0647
- Paper at repository of SibFU
- https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/135925
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