by Matthew Rehrl MD | Definition of Health
After considering Plato’s Theory of Forms as one type of essentialist definition, (as I discussed in my recent posts Definitions and Essentialism: Plato and Is There a Platonic Form of Health?) let’s see what Aristotle has to offer. Let’s consider his concept of a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Definition of Health, Philosophy
As pointed out by A. C. Grayling in The History of Philosophy,1 Plato believed his Forms were real things: In Plato’s philosophy, the Forms in the Realm of Being are real things: they are not mental objects only. They are Beauty, Truth, Goodness; but they are also...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Definition of Health, Philosophy
The ordinary language philosopher Raiziel Abelson divides schools of thought about what a definition is into three groups1: essentialism, prescriptivism, and linguistic theories. Roughly an essentialist will be looking for the essence of a word, a prescriptivist will...
by Matthew Rehrl MD | Definition of Health, Philosophy
As I recently mentioned in my blog post Definitions: Healthcare’s Rabbit Hole, one of my deep projects is to understand the ethics of AI in healthcare. However, to do this well I feel I need to first understand what health means, or at least have a good definition of...
