Hippocrates on the nature of man

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In the beginning of his article on the nature of man, Hippocrates says that he will examine the nature of man only from a medical point of view, and not from a purely philosophical one. Ancient philosophers, whose scholarship was, of course, very well known to Hippocrates, argued that everything came from one beginning. So Hales considered moisture to be the beginning of everything and thought that even the gods themselves arose from it, Anaximen replaced the water with air, from which all substances are formed when condensed: water, earth, stones, etc., Anaximander believed that from the unlimited heat into the kind of fire or air, the earth emerged, from which, when dry, animal and human were formed. Heraclitus considered fire to be the origin.

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