New Philosophy of Human Nature
Subtitle: Neither Known to Nor Attained by the Great Ancient Philosophers, Which Will Improve Human Life and Helath
Contributors: Mary Ellen Waithe (Translator); Maria Colomer Vintro (Translator); C. Angel Zorita (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: April 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780252031113
Subjects: History of medicine; Philosophy of science; Topics in philosophy; c 1500 to c 1600; Philosophical anthropology; Early works to 1800; Philosophy; Mind & Body; Women's Studies - General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Philosophy of nature
Description: "This volume is a critical edition of the 1587 treatise, New Philosophy of Human Nature, written during the Spanish Inquisition by the overlooked Spanish philosopher Oliva Sabuco. Puzzled by medicine's abject failure to find a cure for the plague, Sabuco developed a new theory of human nature as the foundation for her remarkably modern holistic philosophy of medicine." "This extensively annotated translation features an ample introduction demonstrating the work's importance to the history of science, philosophy of medicine, and women's studies."--Jacket.