O estoicismo e a medicina pneumática
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https://doi.org/10.20873/rpvn10v1-40Keywords:
Filosofia, Medicina, Estoicismo, Medicina pneumática, Ateneu de Antália, PneumaAbstract
This paper aims to promote the discussion of a topic rarely explored by historians of philosophy. Pneumatist medicine, a medical-philosophical sect, which was spread in Rome during the Flavian dynasty (69-96 AD) and the reign of Trajan (98-117 AD). The heart of the theme is the influence of Stoicism in Athenaeus of Attaleia, in how the Stoic physics and the theory of pneuma became the foundations of its doctrine. Exploring the Pneumatist School of medicine is, in a broader perspective, to highlight a visceral connection which transcends the supposed boundaries that divide philosophy and medicine.
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