Competence conflicts between philosophy and medicine: Caelius aurelianus and the stoics on mental diseases

Classical Quarterly 66 (1):358-369 (2016)
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It is an established Hellenistic topos that philosophy is the ‘medicine’ of the soul, in charge of ‘healing’ the soul in the same way as medicine is in charge of healing the body. The ‘diseases’ of the soul deemed to be in need of healing are its passions, that is, its fears and desires, and the moral ‘health’ that philosophers pledge to grant their followers is freedom from passions and hence peace of mind.

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