11 juin 2025
Tommaso ALPINA, « Is Nutrition a Sufficient Condition for Life ? Avicenna’s Position between Natural Philosophy and Medecine », Système d'information en philosophie des sciences, ID : 10670/1.bdaef9...
The article analyses the epistemological status of medicine as defined by Avicenna in his Canon of Medicine and the relationship between medicine and natural philosophy. The physician must accept certain things that have been established by natural philosophy, and the nutritive soul is one of these things. The question is whether the mechanical explanation of nutrition offered by medicine is subordinate to its formal explanation given by natural philosophy, and whether, therefore, the treatment of the psychic faculties in the Book of the Soul is the theoretical foundation of the medical investigations of the Canon.A. M.