THE INTERPRETATION OF THE CONCEPT OF STRESS IN THE WORKS OF ANCIENT AND EASTERN THINKERS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5281/Keywords:
stress, ancient philosophy, Eastern thinkers, mental strain, Hippocrates, Stoicism, yoga philosophy, Ibn Sina, theory of temperament, history of psychology.Abstract
This article provides a scientific and historical analysis of how the phenomenon of psychophysiological strain was understood and described in the works of ancient Greek, Chinese, Indian, and Eastern (Islamic) thinkers long before the term "stress" was formally introduced into science. The relevant ideas found in the works of Hippocrates, the Stoics, Laozi, Confucius, Patanjali, Ibn Sina, al-Farabi, and al-Ghazali, and their correspondence with and divergence from modern stress theory, are substantiated from a scientific and practical perspective.
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