Algunas vidas de Aristóteles en la tradición árabe
Rafael Ramón Guerrero
Published in The Philosophical Tradition in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Arab world, Aristotle, Biography, Thought transmission.
Can Virtues be taught in Medicine? Aristotle’s Virtue Theory and Medical Education and Clinical Practice
SHAH, Niloy; MARCUM, James A.
Original title: As Virtudes podem ser ensinadas em Medicina? Teoria Aristotélica das Virtudes, Educação Médica e Prática Clínica
Published in
Keywords: Aristotle, Clinical practice, Medical Education, Virtues.
In a complex and technologically sophisticated healthcare system, the utilization of virtues, which emphasizes the art of clinical practice, is often eclipsed by the technical science of its practice. Consequently, the training of physicians generally focuses on the objective and quantifiable science of clinical practice, which at times cripples the patient-physician relationship. To counter this impact on the patient-physician relationship, medical educators are developing pedagogical strategies to teach virtues to medical students and residents. But, can virtues be taught in medical school or in the clinic? To address this question, we explore how Aristotelian virtue theory can be integrated into the medical education experience, which leads to the formation of virtuous physicians. We then conclude by discussing issues surrounding the incorporation of virtues into the medical curriculum.
Cause and explanatory principle of being in Aristotle (Metaphysics VII, 17)
Barbara BOTTER
Original title: Causa e princípio explicativo do ser em Aristóteles (Metafísica VII, 17)
Published in Medieval and Early Modern Iberian Peninsula Cultural History
Keywords: Aristotle, Explanation, Form, Hylemorfism, Metaphysics.
The main topic of this paper is to study the role the form has in constituting composite substances. I will examine the chapter 17 of Metaphysics VII, especially the lines 1041b12-25, who Aristotle uses the example of syllable to show that form is the primary cause of being of sensible substances in that it causes them to be one. The main issue of this investigation is to show that, especially in the last chapter of Metaphysics Zeta, essence is closely identified by Aristotle to the form, which is in charge to transform the material elements into an essential unity and to explain the structure of hylomorphic substances.
Considerations about the Woman’s condition in Classical Greece (5th and 6th centuries)
Moisés Romanazzi Tôrres
Original title: Considerações sobre a condição da mulher na Grécia Clássica (séculos V e IV a.C.)
Published in Mirabilia 1
Keywords: Aristophanes., Aristotle, Women.
This article, fundamentally about ateniense case, presents some aspects about woman condition in the Classic Greek. Aristotle justifies the woman submission by the absence of logos plenitude in her spirit. The Aristophanes comedy presents the woman participation in the public life as unusual action. Finally, on the Spartan woman case, we verify a shorter importance in the social body and in the family life.
Editorial: Teaching Medical Virtues
ANGOTTI NETO, Hélio
Original title: Editorial: Ensinando Virtudes Médicas
Published in
Keywords: Aristotle, Edmund Pellegrino, Healthcare, Medical Ethics, Principles of Bioethics, Virtues.
This edition of Mirabilia Medicinae discusses Virtues and Principles in Healthcare and Medical Education.
Enyego d’Àvalos (c. 1414-1484), the Prince of Viana and the new translatio of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Salvador CUENCA ALMENAR
Original title: Enyego d’Àvalos (c. 1414-1484), el príncep de Viana i la nova translatio de l’Ètica nicomaquea d’Aristòtil
Published in Rhythms, expressions and representations of the body
Keywords: Aristotle, Charles of Aragon, Enyego D’Àvalos, Leonardo Bruni, Nicomachean Ethics.
We will present the relationship between the manuscript British Library, Harley 3305, owned by Enyego D’Àvalos, and the Spanish translation of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics by Charles from Aragon, Prince of Viana, during his stay at the Neapolitan court of Alfons el Magnànim between 1457 and 1458. The study of the critical loci of Bruni’s nova translatio copied in the Harley manuscript 3305 will lead us to rule out the possibility that it is the Latin model of the version written by the Prince of Viana.
From Aristotle to Castel: Intertextual Relationships between the color of the sound and the sound of the color – affections and synesthesia
Antonio Celso RIBEIRO
Original title: De Aristóteles a Castel: relações intertextuais entre a cor do som e o som da cor – afetos e sinestesia
Published in Mirabilia Journal 31 (2020/2)
Keywords: Aristotle, Castel, Color, Music, Semiotics, Synesthesia.
The aim of the present work is to analyse the intertextual relationships between musical notes and colours and its ramifications under the point of view of emotions, humors, and science. The research will comprise the historical period starting in ancient Greece with Aristotle, ending in Baroque with French mathematician Louis Bertrand-Castel (1688-1757). Thus, it will take in assumption that music and colors are correlate languages, and we will support the analysis in considering scientific concepts and semiotic approachs and the concept of migration of meanings (synesthesias).
Oedipus at Colonus by the light of Aristotelian ethics philosophy
Jan Gerard Joseph TER REEGEN and Tito Barros LEAL
Original title: Édipo em Colona à luz da filosofia ética aristotélica
Published in Aristocracy and nobility in the Ancient and Medieval World
Keywords: Aristotle, Ethics, Prudence, Sophocles, Tragedy.
The main purpose presented in this article is to analyze how the Sophoclean works influenced the Aristotelian ethical thought construction process. In order to conduct this analysis, the tragedy Oedipus at Colonus is used to arouse the discussion on central questions in the ethical thought of Aristotle, such as practical wisdom, caution and prudence. Therefore, it was necessary to re-compound the transition route between the political-mythical thought, expressed in the mythical temporality of the tragedies, and the political-ethical thought, experienced in the Athens daily routine during the fifth century B.C. However, it is not the proposal of this article to establish an evolutionist analysis concerning the Greek philosophical knowledge construction process. Since this process was done by human efforts, so it is a historical product, it is not a purpose of this work elaborate any kind of validation about one or another way (mythical or ethical) of comprehension, behavior and action. Thus, herein is offered a comparative view between these two possibilities in order to understand how one contributed to the construction of the other one.
The Symbolic and Moral Interpretation of the Hippocratic Oath
Hélio Angotti-Neto
Original title: A Interpretação Simbólica e Moral do Juramento Hipocrático
Published in Mirabilia Journal
Keywords: Aristotle, Hippocrates, Hippocratic Oath, History of Medicine, Medical Humanities.
The Hippocratic Oath remains as one of the most famous ethical texts in Medical Ethics and Bioethics. The objective of this essay is to clarify its poetic and symbolic interpretations, searching for the adequate comprehension of the Oath using a critical narrative approach with the Aristotelian Theory of the Four Discourses and the interpretation of its direct, indirect, specific and general moral prescriptions. The Oath is a poetic text, which can be used to cause a powerful impression upon the new physician, helping in his moral education and in his commitment with the moral community of Medicine. This analysis makes evident that the Hippocratic Oath still can be used for medical education and professional inspiration, rather than just be discarded as a historical curiosity. The conclusion is that the Oath can be approached more properly with specific literary and philosophical tools that can decode its meanings to better comprehension for the contemporary physician.
The analogy and its forms on the Thomas’ de Vio (1469-1534) De nominum analogia
Nicolás ARIEL LÁZARO
Original title: La analogía y sus formas en el De nominum analogia de Tomás de Vio (1469-1534)
Published in The Medieval Aesthetics
Keywords: Analogy, Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan.
This work studies the analogy’s estructure and its forms as was conceibed by Thomas de Vio on his Tractatus de nominum analogia. As it is well known, the Cardinal preferred the analogy of proportionality to be used in the fields of metaphysics, i. e. the notion of “ens”, and desestimated the analogy of intrinsic denomination (recovered later by Suárez). On the other hand, Cajetan writes a paper to offer a clear notion about the forms that the analogy should be understood according to Aquinas’ and Aristotle’s original doctrines. After we present the way that the Philosopher studied this topic, and after we had presented Aquinas’ ideas, we will go deeply into the differences between all the mentioned authors. Finally, our conclusions.
