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| - | [[Image:Plato and Aristotle in The School of Athens painting by Raphael.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of ''[[The School of Athens]]''<!-- this should link to an article about the famous artwork -->, a fresco by [[Raphael]]. Aristotle gestures to the [[earth]], representing his belief in knowledge through empirical observation and experience, while holding a copy of his ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'' in his hand. Plato holds his ''[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]]'' and gestures to the [[heaven]]s, representing his belief in [[The Forms]]]] | ||
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| - | In the [[history of philosophy]], [[Plato]] is an [[idealist]] and [[Aristotle]] the [[Philosophical realism|realist]]. | ||
| - | In the ''[[The School of Athens]]'', a fresco by [[Raphael]] Aristotle gestures to the [[earth]], representing his belief in knowledge through [[empirical]] observation and experience, while holding a copy of his ''[[Nicomachean Ethics]]'' in his hand. Plato holds his ''[[Timaeus (dialogue)|Timaeus]]'' and points his [[index finger]] to the [[heaven]]s, representing his belief in [[The Forms]]. | + | '''Homeopathy''' is a system of [[alternative medicine]] created in 1796 by [[Samuel Hahnemann]], based on his doctrine of ''like cures like'' (''[[similia similibus curentur]]''), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people. Homeopathy is a [[pseudoscience]] – a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition; large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a [[placebo]], indicating that any positive effects that follow treatment are only due to the placebo effect and [[regression toward the mean|normal recovery]] from illness. |
| - | In the summary provided by ''The School of Athens'', [[Plato]] is the [[celestial]] philosopher and an [[idealist]], while [[Aristotle]], the [[chthonic]] philosopher is the [[Philosophical realism|realist]]. | + | Hahnemann believed the underlying causes of disease were phenomena that he termed ''miasms'', and that homeopathic preparations addressed these. The preparations are manufactured using a process of [[homeopathic dilution]], in which a chosen substance is repeatedly diluted in alcohol or distilled water, each time with the containing vessel being bashed against an elastic material, (commonly a [[Bookbinding|leather-bound]] book). Dilution typically continues well past the point where no [[molecule]]s of the original substance remain. |
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[Fringe science]] | ||
| + | * [[List of topics characterized as pseudoscience]] | ||
| - | More difference between [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] are to be found in their views on art. Plato was frequently critical of the arts, see [[Plato on art]] and [[Plato on censorship]]. Aristotle was altogether more appreciative towards art and artists and wrote the first tract of literary theory, the ''[[Poetics (Aristotle)|Poetics]]''. His theory of [[catharsis]] counteracted Plato's views that poets should only represent [[the good]]. | ||
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| - | The difference with regards to the arts is best summarized in ''[[The Secret Museum]]'' by Walter Kendrick: | ||
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| - | :"Both [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]] concede great, irrational power to drama and all the other arts, but the one sees this power as continuous, the other as intermittent. Plato makes art out to be something like poison, slowly accumulating in the system and strangling it. In the Aristotelian view, art is [[homeopathic]] medicine, to be taken as needed and put back on the shelf." | ||
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| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | *[[Art and morality]] | ||
| - | *[[Representation (arts)]] | ||
| - | *[[Aristotle's aesthetics]] | ||
| - | *[[Plato's aesthetics]] | ||
| - | *[[Sociology of art]] | ||
| - | *[[Purpose of art]] | ||
| - | *[[Art for art]] | ||
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Homeopathy is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of like cures like (similia similibus curentur), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience – a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition; large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a placebo, indicating that any positive effects that follow treatment are only due to the placebo effect and normal recovery from illness.
Hahnemann believed the underlying causes of disease were phenomena that he termed miasms, and that homeopathic preparations addressed these. The preparations are manufactured using a process of homeopathic dilution, in which a chosen substance is repeatedly diluted in alcohol or distilled water, each time with the containing vessel being bashed against an elastic material, (commonly a leather-bound book). Dilution typically continues well past the point where no molecules of the original substance remain.
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