On Socrates’ Health Ethics Thought
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2023.06.08
- VernacularTitle:论苏格拉底的健康伦理思想
- Author:
Jiaxin LI
1
;
Zhenxing SU
1
Author Information
1. School of Health Humanities, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300070, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Socrates;
Health Ethics;
Nature;
Self-control;
Temperance
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2023;36(6):636-640
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Socrates understood the significance of health and disease to humans from the dimensions of body and soul, and advocated that humans should live a life consistent with nature. Socrates’ virtue of temperance, which is most closely related to health, emphasizes that self-control is the foundation of training a healthy body and mind, and having temperance is the premise for constructing healthy city-state. Faced with the problems of unhealthy lifestyle, infinite expansion of consuming desires, and materialization of interpersonal relations in modern society, Socrates’ health ethics thought has certain practical significance in transforming medical model and reconstructing positive health concept.
