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A comment on Mental Disorder.

Re:Mental Disorder by dr_dshiv on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:29AM (#19215868)
"Works of ancient philosophy are focused more on the psyche’s health (or eudaimonia) than its illness. Nonetheless, there are hints that just as a unified soul is one that is healthy (as well as rational and virtuous), a soul lacking unity will be disturbed, or mad. Offering an account of the harmonious soul, whose rational and non-rational elements achieve a unified whole, Aristotle leaves us a picture of the warring and fractured state of an unhealthy soul, for example."
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Re:Mental Disorder by PavlovsCat on Thursday February 21, 2019 @05:47AM (#19215940)
> Socrates used to say, ‘What do you want? To have the souls of rational or irrational beings?’ ‘Of rational beings.’ And of what kind of rational beings, those that are sound or depraved?’ ‘Those that are sound.’ ‘Then why are you not seeking for them?’ ‘Because we have them.’ ‘Then why all this fighting and quarrelling?’

-- Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"

On the other hand, I also really like this, even though it's probably one of those fake internet quotes:

> If your heart is broken, don't try to fix it, they work better that way.

-- Tibetan monk

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Re:Mental Disorder by mikeash on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:34AM (#19217097)
If you keep spreading that last quote, eventually a Tibetan monk will read it and repeat it, and it’ll no longer be fake.
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