L’anima che alberga la filosofia deve, con la sua sanità, render sano anche il corpo

The essay sets out to examine the relationship between the health of the body and the health of the soul in a few pages of Montaigne’s Essais, insisting on the parallelism between care of the body and care of the soul as, however, the expression of a complex relationship with the world of law. According to Montaigne’s Platonic vision, rhetoric and sophistry are characterised as degenerations of a righteous conduct of life, both individual and collective, which can be opposed to an autonomy of judgement based on an awareness of the mutation of being.