Plato supposes that education (paideia) is an universal method for the development of a man/woman. But Plato also limits doctors’ practice in the Republic. Doctors should not help persons with bad soul and weak body. In contemporary world a medicine replaces education. Doctors’ acts are means of improvement of physical, will and cognitive human abilities. What is the specificity of the connection between doctors’ practice and education in Plato’s philosophy? How Plato’s conception can correct the strategies of modern society?
     

paideia, medicine, development of human abilities