Doubts About Galen
by Al-Razi · Kitab al-Shukuk 'ala Jalinus
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- c. 900-925
- Era
- Medieval
- Language
- Arabic
- Length
- Medium · 150 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendClassical Arabic Philosophy, translated by Jon McGinnis and David C. ReismanHackett, 2007The anthology Yale assigns; it prints the Introduction, the part programs read.
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A critique of the Greek physician Galen by the Persian physician and philosopher Al-Razi, who spent his life practising and teaching medicine in Rayy and Baghdad. The Introduction defends the right of a later thinker to disagree with a master, arguing that the arts progress, that medicine and philosophy advance by correcting their founders, and that Galen himself would have wanted it. The body of the work then works through Galen's treatises, challenging his teachings on the eternity of the world, the soul, and the theory of vision and fevers.
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