Empedocles

The book Inferno was a very interesting book. It truly showed the poetic side of ancient history. It also conveys many of the system theories but it is more focused on Hierarchy, Trade/Communication, and Political/Social. In the first part of the book it shows the system of Hierarchy because it goes through all the different social classes and how each of them work. Also, how the people do their own way of running their village. Plus, in this village they have a leader and the leader tells the…

James Longrigg gives an alternative view of ancient Greek evidence and the value it has. He assesses the impact of the ancient Greeks to the early development of medical science. He starts with an introduction that sets out the terms of his approach. Almost immediately Longrigg distinguishes between the originality and the rational nature of Greek medicine in its progression of natural means of explanation regarding the causation and character of disease and health. There are seven chapters of…

Regardless if the state is right or wrong? It seems that Socrates answered this question when he opted to obey the state of Athens even when he knew it was acting wrongly against him. Socrates showed excessive loyalty that could not be justified by other men of thought. According to Socrates, the fate of a citizen is sealed, that is total and unwavering loyalty and obedience to the state since he chose to live in and be a part of it. He knew, according to him, that he was condemned to death…

The Allied invasion of Sicily on 10 July 1943, codenamed Operation Husky, was a major campaign of World War II. The Allies intentions were to remove the Italian regime from the war, secure the central Mediterranean and divert German divisions from the northwest coast of France where the Allies planned to attack in the future. I argue that when evaluating operational-level command and control against the elements of mission command during Operation HUSKY, the Allied forces lacked the necessary…

humanistic on a philosophical level (Miller 1998, p. xiv). Pico “often exhibited a tolerant eclecticism, an open-minded, receptive attitude toward foreign and ancient philosophies and religion” (Miller 1998, p. x). For example, Pico used Pythagoras, Empedocles, Mohammed, Plato, Aristotle, Latin, Hebrew and even Arabic and Aramaic sources of philosophies to explain and support his views and ideas as he believed that in every philosophy or school there is something notable that it does not have in…

In light of this, many physicians defended their position much like the writer of The Science of Medicine who stated in his public speech, “Our practice is limited by the instruments made available by Nature or by Art. When a man is attacked by a disease more powerful than the instruments of medicine, it must not be expected that medicine should prove victorious.” The writer soundly defends medicine’s role as a techne by pointing out the fact that medicine has its limitations and if a disease is…