Concept

Health

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desirable level of functional or metabolic efficiency of a living being

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The direct cause of disease is the excess of heat or cold, the formal cause is excess or defect, the place is the blood or brain. But health is the harmonious commixture of the elements. Diocles, that sickness for the most part proceeds from the irregular disposition of the elements in the body, for that makes an ill habit or constitution of it.
Plutarch, Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3
The chapter “CHAPTER XXX. OF HEALTH, SICKNESS, AND OLD AGE.” is titled for Health; states what Health is.
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But if we take things of different orders the axiom is not true: for we may say that health is caused by medicine, but it does not follow that medicine is more desirable than health, for health belongs to the order of final causes, whereas medicine belongs to the order of efficient causes. So of two things belonging essentially to the order of the objects of knowledge, the one which is the cause of the other being…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
Names Health several times; states what Health is.
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Is it really obvious that health, for instance, is good? Was the excellence of Socrates or of Shakespeare normal? Was it not rather abnormal, extraordinary?
G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica
Names Health several times; states what Health is.
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