Original scientific paper
Syncretism and Encyclopaedism in Skalić's Epistemon: a Case of Medicine
Maja Hudoletnjak Grgić
; Institut za filozofiju, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
The paper offers an analysis of the part of Skalić’s Epistemon which brings a discussion of medicine. Several aspects of the discussion are analysed. Attempt is made to show the structure of Skalić’s account of medicine, to identify his immediate and secondary sources, to explain some inconsistencies in the course of his presentation, and to determine the origin of some traits of Skalić’s approach to medicine, e.g., his apparent hellenism. Further, analysis of the account of medicine together with the preceding discussion of soul points to some methodological difficulties of Skalić’s general approach. The discussions of soul and of medicine make two methodologically different accounts, illustrating two different modes of approach to the presentation of the subject-matter, syncretism and encyclopaedism. Thus, two accounts, that are in many points closely related, are methodologically pronouncedly separated in a way that points to the difficulties with Skalić’s general methodological approach.
Keywords
Pavao Skalić; syncretism; encyclopaedism; medicine; philosophy of nature; Hippocrates; Galen; Hellenism; Leonhart Fuchs; concordism
Hrčak ID:
67349
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Publication date:
1.1.2007.
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