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Plato’s Medicinal Politics and Its Hippocratic Entwinement: Illness, Paideia, and the Decline of an Ideal City - Elements in Ancient Philosophy Liu, Wenjin (Duke University)
Plato’s Medicinal Politics and Its Hippocratic Entwinement: Illness, Paideia, and the Decline of an Ideal City - Elements in Ancient Philosophy
Liu, Wenjin (Duke University)
This Element argues that Plato's medical language in political contexts is a medical model of political analysis. It shows how Plato adopts, critiques, and reworks Hippocratic ideas to diagnose, explain, evaluate, and treat political conditions. It is a solution to how the ideal city can be stable and yet liable to degenerate into vice.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | October 31, 2026 |
| ISBN13 | 9781009732215 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 75 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 204 g (Weight (estimated)) |
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