Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197505915.003.0005
Alexus McLeod
Chapter 4 discusses a “positive” account of madness. The Zhuangist, among others, focuses on the way we can understand an inherent value in madness depending on how we conceive of situations in given perspectives, and that we have reason to resist understanding particular people as mad or disordered objectively. The idea here is to include any mental state that is regularly seen as problematic or getting in the way of efficient or proper human functioning. This chapter also discusses a host of mad or mentally disordered individuals found in early Chinese texts, with the aim of understanding how they fit into the structure built thus far, and how various appearances of these characters (such as the “Madman of Chu”) in different texts will often serve to illustrate the divergent messages about mental disorder we find in these texts.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197505915.003.0002
Alexus McLeod
Chapter 1 lays out the dominant views of self, agency, and moral responsibility in early Chinese philosophy. The reason for this is that these views inform the ways early Chinese thinkers approach mental illness, as well as the role they see it playing in self-cultivation as a whole (whether they view it as problematic or beneficial, for example). This chapter offers a view of a number of dominant conceptions of mind, body, and agency in early Chinese thought, through a number of philosophical and medical texts. It covers the Confucian view of personhood as role-based and communal, and the Zhuangist deconstructive view of the self. Finally, the chapter includes an argument that early Chinese thinkers recognized a distinction between mind and body, and that mind was dealt with as a separate category, thus making the topic of “mental illness” possible.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197505915.003.0007
Alexus McLeod
The conclusion considers some of the implications of early Chinese views of mental illness and self-cultivation for contemporary thought concerning mental illness. I argue that some of the views of early Chinese thinkers can be adapted using contemporary conceptions of mental illness, and that difficulties for certain kinds of character, virtue, and role ethics that arise surrounding issues of mental illness might be solved by adapting these views to contemporary contexts.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197505915.003.0006
Alexus McLeod
Chapter 5 discusses the “syncretic” view of madness and mental illness in early Chinese texts. This view is mainly associated with the syncretistic texts of the early Han Dynasty, such as Huainanzi and Chunqiu Fanlu. The syncretists reject both the negative and positive views, arguing that a complex of nature, circumstances, and individual activity is responsible for most mental illness, and that the key to avoiding or eliminating mental illness is the undermining of conceptualization and elimination of desires. The syncretic view of mental illness and cultivation creates the groundwork for the development of naturalistic medical texts such as the Huangdi Neijing, constructed during the Han.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197505915.003.0003
Alexus McLeod
Chapter 2 considers the question of “mental illness” more specifically, looking to both modern accounts and early Chinese accounts of mind and body, of what illness is in a broader medical sense, and mental illness in particular as a form of illness. This chapter offers a view of illness in general in early China, linking it to development of the person, and considers mental illness in terms of qi氣 (vital essence), mind, and community based on the conception of person of the first chapter. This chapter considers here also how illness affects agency—both physical and mental.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-30DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197505915.003.0004
Alexus McLeod
Chapter 3 focuses on the “negative” account of madness found in numerous early texts, most clearly associated with Confucians, that takes madness as the result of character flaw. This chapter focuses on the concept of yangkuang (feigned madness) as a strategy for avoiding responsibility, as well as the idea of legitimate madness as caused by key failures in self-cultivation, particularly regulation of emotions.
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