COSMOS AND BODY: PRESOCRATICS AND HIPPOCRATICS

Students explore the emergence of philosophical and scientific thinking in archaic Greece about the cosmos at large and about humans and human bodies within it. Students examine a variety of ways in which the Greeks approached the relation between macrocosm and microcosm by considering the fundamental nature of the world, how to pursue such a consideration, the relation between body and soul on one hand and the cosmic order which accommodates them on the other, and what it means to flourish and be healthy within this cosmic order and how those goals can be achieved.