Authors :
Shivani Chib
Volume/Issue :
Volume 7 - 2022, Issue 3 - March
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DOI :
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6433780
Abstract :
I argue in this paperopposite to the thinking
of some philosopher that there is a direct link exist
between philosophers and medicines. From the
conventionaltime to the modern era, the basis of
medicine is philosophy. This is true especially in case of
modern medicine which totally based on the philosophies
of two great philosopher, Descartes and Bacon. These
two disciplines such as philosophy and science seemto
obey the Descartes goals,according to which, philosophy
is the quest for truth whereas medicine implies the quest
for health. They both try to enhance the human
wellbeing in complimentary ways.In one side, where
medicines attemptto fight with the diseases of the body
that are caused by bacteria and viruses and all other
somatic diseases, philosophy on the other side, try to
fightagainst diseases of the mind such as half-truth,
prejudices, wooly judgement and uncritical conceptof
the world health and disease, which may have their
direct effect on health and healthy delivery. While using
an essential example, I try to explain that there are
many questions that raises while during the practice of
medicines and these questions are beyond the scope of
medicines. These are thequestion to which only
philosophy cangive answer because they are under its
scope. Physician are daily challenged with question in
such philosophical areas such as metaphysics,
epistemology, ethics and logic. Moreover,I argue that
over-dependence on cartesian ontology is one of the
debilities of western medicines, which considers that
human bodies are like machines which can be studied by
using scientific logic, and the physician is like technician
whose job is to repair the function of the body. The
result of this modern metaphysical outlooks is that they
neglect to consider the patient as a subjective being, and
without reviewing the cartesian reductionist world
view,this deficiency cannot be overcome. At the end, if
medicines achieve happiness by healthy body then
metaphysics achieve happiness by healing the soul, and
together they both work for human wellbeing. Both
disciplines therefore have therapeutic end.
Keywords :
philosophy, medicines, metaphysics, epistemology, logic
I argue in this paperopposite to the thinking
of some philosopher that there is a direct link exist
between philosophers and medicines. From the
conventionaltime to the modern era, the basis of
medicine is philosophy. This is true especially in case of
modern medicine which totally based on the philosophies
of two great philosopher, Descartes and Bacon. These
two disciplines such as philosophy and science seemto
obey the Descartes goals,according to which, philosophy
is the quest for truth whereas medicine implies the quest
for health. They both try to enhance the human
wellbeing in complimentary ways.In one side, where
medicines attemptto fight with the diseases of the body
that are caused by bacteria and viruses and all other
somatic diseases, philosophy on the other side, try to
fightagainst diseases of the mind such as half-truth,
prejudices, wooly judgement and uncritical conceptof
the world health and disease, which may have their
direct effect on health and healthy delivery. While using
an essential example, I try to explain that there are
many questions that raises while during the practice of
medicines and these questions are beyond the scope of
medicines. These are thequestion to which only
philosophy cangive answer because they are under its
scope. Physician are daily challenged with question in
such philosophical areas such as metaphysics,
epistemology, ethics and logic. Moreover,I argue that
over-dependence on cartesian ontology is one of the
debilities of western medicines, which considers that
human bodies are like machines which can be studied by
using scientific logic, and the physician is like technician
whose job is to repair the function of the body. The
result of this modern metaphysical outlooks is that they
neglect to consider the patient as a subjective being, and
without reviewing the cartesian reductionist world
view,this deficiency cannot be overcome. At the end, if
medicines achieve happiness by healthy body then
metaphysics achieve happiness by healing the soul, and
together they both work for human wellbeing. Both
disciplines therefore have therapeutic end.
Keywords :
philosophy, medicines, metaphysics, epistemology, logic
