BACKGROUND The philosophy of chiropractic has been a much debated entity throughout the existence of the chiropractic profession. Much criticism has been passed upon the historical philosophy of chiropractic and propagated by contemporary adherents. To date, a new philosophy has not been detailed nor presented that demonstrates principles by which to follow. AIM The purpose of this paper is t...

This paper readdresses the assertion found in much secondary literature that Greek medicine was adopted in Tibet in the seventh and eighth centuries. I discuss some of the traces of Galenic medical knowledge in early Tibetan medicine, and raise the question of why Tibetan medical histories who mention Galen give Galenic medicine a much more significant place than is evidenced in the Tibetan med...

The reception of Harvey's doctrines of the movement of the heart and of the circulation of blood was the result of a complex interaction of intellectual, political and social factors. As French's book shows, Harvey's views were not simply accepted or rejected; they were interpreted-and often misunderstood-in the light of different philosophical and religious ideas. In university faculties and c...

The author, an historian of political ideas, makes the case for multilingual, ‘European’ dictionaries, which should replace the current, bilingual dictionaries. While these are the product of a ‘Europe of nations’, the multilingual dictionaries from a historical point of view prove that European history is a unified entity, while, from a political point of view, they aim to render more complete...

The earth is the archetypal image of origin humanity, but throughout history Western culture it has given way to other, more heavenly allegories. Enlightenment as a paradigm knowledge consolidated itself in philosophical thought very convincing production meanings. Through this rereading first Greek metaphysics, gradually distanced from its materiality, possibility admiring concrete world, gett...

i try to show that richard rorty, although is not a moral philosopher like kant, nerveless, has moral philosophy that must be taken seriously. rorty was not engaged with moral philosophy in the systematic manner common among leading modern and contemporary moral philosophers. this paper has two parts: first part, in brief, is concerned with principles of his philosophy such as anti-essentialism...