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Health in Arabic Ethical Works

This chapter focuses on the idea of ethics as a form of medicine for the soul, inspired by Greek works including the Galenic corpus and espoused in the Islamic world by Abu Bakr al-Razi, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, and Miskawayh. It is proposed that we should take this idea seriously on the basis of pervasive parallels between bodily and “spiritual” medicine, for instance the need for preventative measures, the tailoring of such measures to particular patients, the claim that a person may be unaware of their own illness or deficient state, and above all the idea of “balance” in the humors of the body and the parts of the soul. It is also asked whether philosophical argument is really a plausible means of curing maladies of the soul like emotional disturbance.