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“Xenophon tells us that Socrates never neglected the body and did not praise those who did. We can imagine that it was because the physical body—volatile, unseen, and implicated in an automatized natural world—could seem so daemonic that entrusting life, both biological life and ethical life, to its dynamics could seem like ceding control of the human.” HistoryMedicineGreek Philosophers Book:The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece Source: The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece