Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 42 No. 2, 2022.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.21464/fi42208
Madness as Inadequate Self-Consciousness
Milanko Govedarica
orcid.org/0000-0002-8996-9760
; Univerzitet u Beogradu, Filozofski fakultet, Čika Ljubina 18–20, RS–11000 Beograd
Abstract
The importance of philosophy in understanding madness is promoted, and the importance of the patient’s existential philosophical stance in creating and overcoming the psychotic experience is particularly emphasised. In contrast to the factographic approaches characteristic of the empirical knowledge of the relevant special sciences, the spiritual meta-instance of selfovercoming is clarified by developing the thesis of the irreducibility and irreplaceability of human self-consciousness in both the deterioration and improvement of mental health. The meaning of the right attitude towards transcendence is explained, which implies the awareness of the limited knowledge of absolute reality, but not the loss of hope in its sanative manifestations. The main criteria for inadequate self-awareness of madness are the lack of a harmonised autobiographical narrative and incompatibility with the transcendent and universal order of values.
Keywords
self-consciousness; madness; mental health; transcendence; order of values; Karl Jaspers; Max Scheler
Hrčak ID:
285000
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Publication date:
5.9.2022.
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