Abstract:The understanding of the reasons for human suffering and the identification of effective means to mitigate it had two major developments in the history of civilization. Aristotle, Hippocrates and other Greek philosophers were the leaders of the first revolution, when they started to explain natural phenomena through the use of logic and observation, leaving aside metaphysical grounds, and creating the philosophical basis of the scientific method.After a long period of recrudescence of religious explanations fo… Show more
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