Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Jüdisches Krankenhaus Berlin - Berlin Jewish Hospital Academic teaching hospital of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Heinz-Galinski-Straße 1, Haus D, 13347, Berlin-Mitte, Germany.
Med Health Care Philos. 2022 Dec;25(4):579-586. doi: 10.1007/s11019-022-10099-8. Epub 2022 Jul 18.
This paper critically examines the metaphorical use of medical terms in philosophy. Three examples selected from distinct philosophical contexts demonstrate that such terms have been employed as metaphors both to describe the practice of philosophising and historically to diagnose philosophical positions. The selected examples are (i) the title of Avicenna's main philosophical work, The Book of Healing, (ii) the criticism of medical metaphors in Enlightenment philosophy, and (iii) recent historical diagnoses in philosophy. The underlying epistemological assumptions of all three contexts are reconstructed to critically analyse the medical metaphors. Through this tripartite synopsis, I arrive at a normative conclusions medical metaphors, such as the "healing of the soul" or "pathology of reason", do not stand up to the critique of Enlightenment and are obsolete against the theoretical background of my reference texts.
本文批判性地考察了医学术语在哲学中的隐喻用法。从三个不同的哲学背景中选择的三个例子表明，这些术语不仅被用来描述哲学思考的实践，而且还被用来在历史上诊断哲学立场。所选例子是：（i）阿维森纳主要哲学著作《治愈之书》的标题；（ii）启蒙哲学中对医学隐喻的批评；以及（iii）哲学中的最新历史诊断。对所有三个背景的潜在认识论假设进行了重构，以批判性地分析医学隐喻。通过这个三分法综述，我得出了一个规范性的结论，即“灵魂的治愈”或“理性的病理学”等医学隐喻经不起启蒙运动的批判，并且在我的参考文本的理论背景下已经过时。
