The conception of soul disease in Evagrius Ponticus. A new synthesis and extension of the teleological model of explanation of Hippocratic-Galenic medicine

GARGIULO MARÍA TERESA; DR. SANTIAGO VAZQUEZ

VOX PATRUM

Institute of Research on Christian Antiquity of the Catholic University of Lublin, Polonia

Lugar: LUBLIN; Año: 2021 vol. 78 p. 207 - 238

0860-9411

A long hermeneutical tradition has indicated, in one way or another, the influence of ancient medicine on the writings of Evagrius Ponticus. But the interest of our study is not only limited to exposing the sources that seem to have nourished the Evagrian understanding of the disease of the soul, but also seeks to clarify the original element from which the Monk of Pontus would incorporate the teleological model of explanation inaugurated by Hippocratic-Galenic medicine. His new Christian synthesis would inscribe in new coordinates that explanatory model of secular science. As it is stated in his writings, the subordinate end of the phýsis will be traced by the spiritual dimension.