Ancient Greece: Medical Metaphors in Ethics
Keywords:
Antiquity, philosophers, doctors, metaphorsAbstract
This short article is just one preview of the vast use of medical metaphors in ethics. Human beings have often imagined and established what a good society should be like by borrowing medical metaphors, and to achieve this purpose they have often used medical metaphors to create representations capable of providing models, like utopias, which society should even- tually match.
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