Disease, Medicine and Magic in Schopenhauer's philosophical system
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Schopenhauer, Enfermedad, Medicina, Magia, Curas por simpatía.Abstract
This paper analyzes the very possibility of disease - understood as an imbalance of a living organism - in Schopenhauer's philosophical system. Magic, specifically "sympathy cures", imply an irruption into the physical (and physiological) world of the omnipotence, of the essential subject, which created it. But if this world is considered to be a mechanism regulated by virtue of the laws of Nature, not even the idea of a magical cure (which implies a specific suspension of these laws) would solve the mystery of the very existence of the disease. A possible solution to these hermeneutical difficulties would be to contemplate the disease from three perspectives, which would coincide with the three ontological levels in which Schopenhauer's philosophical system seems to be structured: the human being, the world and the essential subject from which all possible worlds arise (and which coincides with the ultimate source of Magic).
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