For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.

Plato

The Great Error of Our Day

Topic: Self-Cultivation & Health

“Neither ought you to attempt to cure the body without the soul; and this is the reason why the cure of many diseases is unknown to the physicians of Hellas, because they are ignorant of the whole which ought to be studied also; for the part can never be well unless the whole is well… For this is the great error of our day in the treatment of the human body, that physicians separate the soul from the body.“

Plato

Hellenism
Charmides

Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture II. Universal Peace Federation, 2011, p. 171 [Plato, Charmides (154-160)].

Plato