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## Plato on Madness and Mental Disorders Plato and madness-the association of these two words makes one immediately think of Plato's celebrated notion of madness as an inspired state, a divine privilege enjoyed by poets, prophets, and lovers. Plato's notion of medical mental disorders is less known, and for obvious reasons: Plato's views must be carefully reconstructed from a number of passages here and there, since there is no readily accessible discussion of the subject in the corpus, and many key passages are open to various interpretations. in this chapter, i proceed by addressing one dialogue at a time, but i also attempt to show whether and, if so, how the ideas present in the various dialogues are compatible. i will consider the various uses to which Plato puts the vocabulary of madness, beginning with its specific use for the condition of divine inspiration, and proceeding to texts exploring the distinction between moral depravity and (medical) illness, and the ethical significance of this distinction. As the question of mental illness is of minor importance for Plato, i am not too concerned with the chronological order of the dialogues; any possible variation in the concep

Author

Marke Ahonen

Publisher

Springer International Publishing AG

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9783319034300

Subjects

Philosophy, Psychology, History