Mental Disorders in Ancient Philosophy by Marke Ahonen

Author:Marke Ahonen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Chrysippus seems to suggest that such terms as “woman-madness” were in common use and not specific to Stoic philosophers with their notion of “general” madness. The Platonist Galen, who provides the citation, remarks that Chrysippus’ use of the word “mad” indicates that the condition must be caused by some irrational power (dynamis) and not by any belief of the rational faculty. Yet Galen attempts to clarify the Stoic position, emphasising the intensity aspect rather than the permanence of these conditions:

Infirmities arise in the soul not simply from the false supposition about something, that it is good or evil, but from the supposition that it is the greatest (good or evil); the opinion about money, that it is good, is not yet an infirmity, but it becomes an infirmity when one holds that money is the greatest good and even supposes that life is not worth living for the man who has lost it: this constitutes ‘love of money’ and ‘love of wealth’, which are infirmities.120

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