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| Similarities and differences of philosophical theories on the basis of Chinese and Greek medicine |
| Hits 1377 Download times 1654 Received:November 05, 2014 |
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| DOI
10.11656/j.issn.1672-1519.2015.03.13 |
| Key Words
ancient Greece;natural phenomena;4 elements |
| Author Name | Affiliation | | Joanna Kazali | Greece | | ZHONG Qiang-wei | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China | | LI Lin | Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin 300193, China |
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| Abstract
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| Two of the oldest civilizations, Chinese and Greek, seem far too close during the antiquity, despite the distance between them, through their philosophers. Ancient people were asking fundamental questions about a wide range of phenomena and were trying to answer them on the basis of systematic investigations. Among the subjects that interested them were the movements of the heavenly bodies, the working of the human body in health and in illness, the nature of the changes that physical objects undergo. The aim of this essay is a brief approach on the basic philosophical theories of these two cultures through their similarities and differences. |
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