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New Light on Galen's Moral Philosophy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Richard Walzer
Affiliation:
Oriel College, Oxford

Extract

The first publication of a hitherto lost work on moral philosophy by Galen deserves the attention of scholars interested in the thought of one who was the last great physician of antiquity, who by a peculiar chain of circumstances became the teacher of the Middle Ages in scientific medicine, and who in his own day enjoyed also success as a philosopher. Posterity, it is true, did not regard his philosophical work with the favour it bestowed on his achievements in medicine, and hence a very small number of his philosophical writings has survived to the present day either in the original text or in Arabic translations.

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Research Article
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1949

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