New Philosophy of Human Nature: Neither Known to Nor Attained by the Great Ancient Philosophers, Which Will Improve Human Life and HelathThis volume is a critical edition of the 1587 treatise by Oliva Sabuco, New Philosophy of Human Nature, written during the Spanish Inquisition. Puzzled by medicine’s abject failure to find a cure for the plague, Sabuco developed a new theory of human nature as the foundation for her remarkably modern holistic philosophy of medicine. Fifty years before Descartes, Sabuco posited a dualism that accounted for mind/body interaction. She was first among the moderns to argue that the brain--not the heart--controls the body. Her account also anticipates the role of cerebrospinal fluid, the relationship between mental and physical health, and the absorption of nutrients through digestion. This extensively annotated translation features an ample introduction demonstrating the work’s importance to the history of science, philosophy of medicine, and women’s studies. |
Contents
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Front Material to the 1587 and 1588 Editions | 41 |
1 Knowledge of Ones Self | 47 |
2 Composition of the World as It Is | 133 |
3 Things That Will Improve This World and Its Nations | 145 |
4 Treatments and Remedies of Proper Medicine | 158 |
5 Proper Medicine Derived from Human Nature | 177 |
6 Brief Exposition on Human Nature | 253 |
7 Proper Philosophy of the Nature of Composite Things of Humans and of the World Unknown to the Ancients | 271 |
Original Castilian Titles and Subtitles | 315 |
Last Will and Testament of Miguel Sabuco | 323 |
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back cover | 343 |
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