The relevance of Xenophon’s Anabasis and Plato’s Meno to nursing

Abstract

The current situation in which the humanities are disparaged affects all university disciplines (Nussbaum, 2016), including nursing, in whose historical evolution the humanities have always been present in one form or another. Looking beyond this disrepute, this study proposes that nursing once again pays attention to classical philosophy. Among the scientific publications about the relationship between philosophy and nursing, there are few that concern the contributions of classical philosophy. And among the texts that do deal with the classics, attention is focused on some writers more than others, with Aristotle standing out against Plato and Xenophon, to mention only the Greeks. By way of example, in the twenty years of Nursing Philosophy (one of the magazines most clearly specialized in this material), only two texts have been published whose titles men