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  1. Pathologies and the Healing of the soul: medical terms as metaphors in philosophy.Fabian-Alexander Tietze - 2022 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 25 (4):579-586.
    This paper critically examines the metaphorical use of medical terms in philosophy. Three examples selected from distinct philosophical contexts demonstrate that such terms have been employed as metaphors both to describe the practice of philosophising and historically to diagnose philosophical positions. The selected examples are (i) the title of Avicenna’s main philosophical work, The Book of Healing, (ii) the criticism of medical metaphors in Enlightenment philosophy, and (iii) recent historical diagnoses in philosophy. The underlying epistemological assumptions of all three contexts (...)
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