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9 - Medicine, Oeconomy and Needs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2023

Mónica García-Salmones Rovira
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University of Helsinki
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Locke’s knowledge of medicine, and of the main Galenist principles, indicates the type of ideas he was familiar with at an early age. Scholars have analysed the reception in the European political tradition of the Pseudo-Aristotle’s Oeconomia up to Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha, where the household unites economy and politics as a kingdom. The chapter evaluates in a novel manner, in the context of the seventeenth-century liberalism, the tradition of texts that deal with the materialist anthropology of needs, including the Pseudo-Galen’s Yconomia, in which household and humanity originate in the existence of needs. In these texts the state is the sum of individuals united through the materialist principle of human needs with an arbiter entrusted to resolve disputes about reciprocal transactions.

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The Necessity of Nature
God, Science and Money in 17th Century English Law of Nature
, pp. 273 - 312
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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