Society and maladies in Kant: a study based on the Essay on the Maladies of the Head
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Kant, mental illness, society, medicineAbstract
With social passions arise all the obstacles that a form of communal life can face in the execution of its project of coexistence, the idea that social systems considered as a whole can also become ill. The aim of the article is to demonstrate that the interest in the analysis of the perversions of social existence will reach Kant. In the Essay on the Maladies of the Head (1764), the philosopher presents mental illnesses as a crisis whose transformations provide an approach according to which the general organization of society, its fundamental principles and institutional rules are the occasion to consider that history has provided social existence with a conformation in which illness is situated. The approach to mental illness should be understood according to the following perspective: it finds its models in medical writings and aims to go beyond them, privileging, from etiology, a critique of the dynamics assumed by civil life.
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