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The Dao of Madness - Mental Illness and Self-Cultivation in Early Chinese Philosophy and Medicine (Hardcover)
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The Dao of Madness - Mental Illness and Self-Cultivation in Early Chinese Philosophy and Medicine (Hardcover)
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Mental illness complicates views of agency and moral responsibility
in ethics. 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 the mentally ill person cultivate
herself and achieve a level of virtue, character, or thriving
similar to the mentally healthy? Does mental illness result from
failures in self-cultivation, failure in social institutions or
rulership, or other features of human activity? 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 thinkers probed difficult questions
surrounding mental health. Alexus McLeod explores three central
accounts: the early "traditional" views of those, including
Confucians, taking madness to be the result of character flaw; the
challenge from Zhuangists celebrating madness as a freedom from
standard norms connected to knowledge; and the "medicalization" of
madness within the naturalistic shift of Han Dynasty thought.
Understanding views on madness in the ancient world helps reveal
key features of Chinese thinkers' conceptions of personhood and
agency, as well as their accounts of ideal activity. Further, it
exposes the motivations behind the origins of the medical
tradition, and of the key links between philosophy and medicine in
early Chinese thought. The early Chinese medical tradition has
crucial and understudied connections to early philosophy,
connections which this volume works to uncover.
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