Galenism: Rise and Decline of a Medical Philosophy by Owsei Temkin
By Owsei Temkin
"Represents, in converted shape, 4 Messenger lectures" the writer added at Cornell college within the fall 1970.
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3S Utrum medicinae sit an gymnastices hygieine, ad ThTasybulum JibeT 4 (SCT. ); see also ch. 22. On the whole question of useful logic against useless, see Kieffer, Galen's Institutio logica, p. 6, also further below. 36 37 For instance, De usu partium The Portrait of an Ideal 2. J Yet there are disputes that Galen rejects altogether. They deal with problems which, if they are solvable at all, at any rate are not worth the effort that would have to be spent on their solution. But Galen's rejection of these problems occurs in a somewhat different context.
But there are limits to what even Asdepil1s can do. " 43 Asclepius is bound by matter; he cannot command it. This is in line with the arguments Galen raises against the Judaeo-Christian belief in an omnipotent God who, by His mere command, could create the world without suitable material. 44 Asdepius can arrange things 41 Ludwig and Emma J. Edelstein, Asclepius, vol. I, T. 338 (p. 179), T. 413 (p. 208), and T. 458 (p. 263). , T. 436 (p. 250) and T. 459 (p. ), in addition to the references in n.
Nature has not created matter, but She arranges the material in a fashion which we cannot improve even in our thought, and for this we must praise Her and sing hymns to Her. This theme is elaborated in Galen's work On tbe Use of Parts, where anatomical knowledge gained from animal dissection is used to prove that all parts of the human body are constructed in the best possible manner to serve their human functions. 46 Nature is provident, most powerful, and good, and, as Aristotle said, She does nothing in vain.