Hippocrate empiriste? Un idolum entre philosophie et praxis médicale (Du régime, I, 4)
Résumé
This paper offers a reconstruction of the fortuna of a Hippocratic formula that has been conspicuously misunderstood since the sixteenth century by physicians and philosophers. For several centuries, and despite the increasing care with which translators and editors have examined classical texts and their circulation, the quote in question by Hippocrates has been expounded as a sentence advocating the primacy of sensory experience as a means of knowledge. This article aims to highlight the philological, cultural, and epistemic circumstances that produced and reinforced this misunderstanding, which persisted until the nineteenth century.