Charaka - Answers Health and disease are not predetermined and
life may be prolonged by human effort.
Sushruta - Answers The purpose of medicine is to cure disease of
the sick, protect the healthy, and prolong life. Described over 300 surgical
procedures.
Vitalism - Answers The belief that "living organisms are
fundamentally different from non-living entities because they contain some
nonphysical element or are governed by different principles that are
inanimate things".
Animism - Answers The religious belief that objects, places, and
creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.
Aristotle's Metaphysics made a difference between what two key concepts?
- Answers 1) Dynamis (Latin Ptentia)
2) Energeia/Entelecheia (Latin actus)
Dynamis - Answers A matter that was prone to be formed.
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Entelecheia/Energeia - Answers The molding principle.
In Vitalism, the heart and the liver are said to develop from what? -
Answers The female semen or matter (dynamis)
In Vitalism, the heart and liver and said to be shaped by what? - Answers
The male semen or matter (entelecheia)
The "Soul" (psyche): - Answers Natural Body (Entelecheia), which is
given to Life by its dynamis
Dynamis is looked at as the... - Answers Giver of "Life Force"
Aristotle developed what two concepts for the development of humans? -
Answers 1) Preformation Theory
2) Theory of Epigenesis
Preformation Theory - Answers An embryo or miniature individual
preexists in either the mother's egg or the father's semen and begins to
grow when properly stimulated.
Theory of Epigenesis - Answers Assumes that the new embryo
begins as an undifferentiated mass and that new parts are added during
development.
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