Waring D
Graduate Programme in Philosophy, York University, North York, Ontario, Canada.
Theor Med Bioeth. 2000;21(2):139-51. doi: 10.1023/a:1009952831029.
This essay argues that the practice of medicine is not a phronetic activity in the original Aristotelian sense of that term. Jonsen and Toulmin are two philosophers who have conflated the techne of medicine with phronesis. This conflation ignores Aristotle's crucial distinction between techne and phronesis and his use of the medical analogy. It is argued that medical reasoning is similar to phronesis but does not exemplify it. Phronesis will not save the life of medical ethics. The concept could be utilized as a moral prosthetic.
本文认为，从亚里士多德对该术语的原始意义上讲，医学实践并非一种明智的活动。琼森和图尔敏是两位将医学技艺与明智混为一谈的哲学家。这种混淆忽视了亚里士多德对技艺和明智的关键区分以及他对医学类比的运用。有人认为，医学推理与明智相似，但并未体现明智。明智并不能挽救医学伦理学。这一概念可被用作一种道德辅助手段。
