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
Titolo del capitolo
Milieu et peuples. Entre les traités hippocratiques et Aristote
Autori
Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
Lingua
French
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-160-0.02
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Copyright
© 2020 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Titolo del libro
Nazioni come individui
Sottotitolo del libro
Il carattere nazionale fra passato e presente
Curatori
Michela Nacci
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Numero di pagine
158
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
Copyright
© 2020 Author(s)
Licenza d'uso
Licenza dei metadati
Editore
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
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919