Madness, Reason, and Pride
[...]the boon of instead pursuing questions of an ‘opposed to what?’ sort; hence Wittgenstein considering using the Earl of Kent’s “I’ll teach you differences” (King Lear) as a motto for his Investigations. [...]much of what else the delusional subject says, even regarding that which also features a...
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| Published in | Philosophy, psychiatry & psychology Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 307 - 311 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University Press
01.12.2023
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| Summary: | [...]the boon of instead pursuing questions of an ‘opposed to what?’ sort; hence Wittgenstein considering using the Earl of Kent’s “I’ll teach you differences” (King Lear) as a motto for his Investigations. [...]much of what else the delusional subject says, even regarding that which also features as the topic of their delusion, expresses rationally intelligible thought: Resolving the paradox is to involve us in acknowledging that: “the mad person has an intact inferential capacity,” but reasons from faulty premises because of an “unhinged power of association” (Locke); in madness “reason’s systematizing quality” is retained (Kant); the mad person has “two minds, one of which is reasonable and the other unreasonable” (Wigan); and the mad person is “pragmatically rational” in that they have “a fundamentally reasonable goal, that of protecting themselves from a painful world” (Heinroth). Put a car up on bricks, start the engine, put it in gear, and depress the accelerator: |
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| Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 14 |
| ISSN: | 1071-6076 1086-3303 1086-3303 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/ppp.2023.a916212 |