The article compares some of the so-called Hippocratic treatises and Aristotle’s Physics, Meteorologics, Ethics and Politics, on what would define a human community, if not a nation. It shows a common absence of the notions of climate and environment but a close way of conceiving the physical continuity between the outside world (immediate or more distant) and the inside of living bodies. Then, the external conditions (seasons, temperatures, nature of the soil) similarly determine the complexions and characters of the populations that experience them. Divergences occur due to the determinism of the external conditions on politics. The Hippocratic treaties do not recognise this, unlike Aristotle, except that the Stagirite excludes from this determinism the Greek City and the virtues, including the civic virtue of justice.
CNRS, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Chapter Title
Milieu et peuples. Entre les traités hippocratiques et Aristote
Authors
Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
Language
French
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-160-0.02
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Publication Year
2020
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Book Title
Nazioni come individui
Book Subtitle
Il carattere nazionale fra passato e presente
Editors
Michela Nacci
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
158
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-160-0
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-159-4
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-160-0
eISBN (epub)
978-88-5518-161-7
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919