Alien Landscapes?: Interpreting Disordered Minds by Jonathan Glover

Author:Jonathan Glover [Glover, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medical, Psychiatry, General, Philosophy, Mind & Body, Psychology, Psychopathology, Movements, Psychoanalysis
ISBN: 9780674368361
Google: VmmABAAAQBAJ
Publisher: HarvardUP
Published: 2014-09-15T20:40:45+00:00

Wide Consensus about the Good Life Is Not Conclusive

Looking from the outside at what seems to work or not, or exploring values from the inside, are attempts to get clear about what things really matter to people. They give a rough account of a good human life, contrasting with psychological conditions that subvert it.

But this exploration may not be conclusive. It can give strong evidence, but still it is evidence that can be overridden. Even the discovery of wide and deep agreement about features of a good or a bad life would have its limits. People with body integrity identity disorder feel that some part of their body is not “them.” What they want (often passionately) may be to have a functioning leg amputated. This conflicts with the views of many surgeons and most of society about what is in their interests. Near-universal agreement that amputation of a functioning limb impairs the good life does not show decisively that someone with BIID has “distorted” values. It could just bring the reply “Two legs are fine for them, but this second leg is wrong for me.”

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