The DAO of Madness: Mental Illness and Self-Cultivation in Early Chinese Philosophy and Medicine McLeod Alexus
The DAO of Madness: Mental Illness and Self-Cultivation in Early Chinese Philosophy and Medicine McLeod Alexus Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility in ethics. Can the…
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The DAO of Madness: Mental Illness and Self-Cultivation in Early Chinese Philosophy and Medicine McLeod Alexus
Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility in ethics. Can the mentally ill person cultivate herself and achieve a level of virtue, character, or thriving similar to the mentally healthy? Particularly for traditions and theories focused on self-cultivation, such as Aristotelian virtue ethics and many systems of ethics in early Chinese philosophy, mental illness offers powerful challenges.
Can a life complicated by struggles with mental illness be a good one?The Dao of Madness investigates the role of mental illness, specifically "madness" (kuang), in discussions of self-cultivation and ideal personhood in early Chinese philosophical and medical thought, and the ways in which early Chinese Does mental illness result from failures in self-cultivation, failure in social institutions or rulership, or other features of human activity?