Can philosophy have an actual, quantifiable effect upon one's mental health? Take Nietzsche, for example: Did his philosophy drive him, at least in part, mad? Or was his madness completely unrelated? That is, nothing more than a likelihood as a consequence of his father's own madness, that sadly came to fruition.
Or can it even a physical impact on the brain, for example?
Logan Jenkins
>Or can it even a physical impact on the brain, for example?
Yeah, if you're any kind of Marxist/SJW, then chances are a blunt object will make a very impact on your brain, and by mine own hand no less.
Austin Thomas
>1 poster
Gavin Cooper
>Did his philosophy drive him, at least in part, mad? Or was his madness completely unrelated?
Probably the latter, though I do find it interesting how unexplored the relationship is between philosophy and mental health.
Elijah Williams
lIt'll have some physical impact on the brain because learning new things and plasticity and all that.
I think there's something to be said for thinking differently and seeing things in a new light and all that. But you can say that about almost any pursuit, like would we have Nash Equilibria if John Nash hadn't been fucking mental. In fact I'd say math has more than its fair share of nutters (one of the researchers in Cambridge I think it was on the Monster set ended up living in a basement trying to find the ultimate truth in bus timetables).
Dominic Rogers
>2016 >Fascists think they'll have the last laugh
Connor Nguyen
Not really, no. I hate this romanticized view of mental health as a catalyst for great works of literature, philosophy and art. Most often they hinder it.
Cooper Torres
Same poster
Seriously, kill yourself
Brayden Morales
Nietzche had syphillis. His philosophy had nothing to do with his madness.
Andrew Sanchez
Who let the same poster in?
Luke Martinez
The thing to remember is they're p much always only medical problems because they hinder.
Jace Fisher
>Nietzche had syphillis
Keep believing the memes, kid.
Jordan Bennett
I'm more on the brain tumor train.
Hunter Brown
His madness was hereditary, that's all. His dad had it, he had. These sorts of things tend to run in the family. He lived his life in fear of succumbing to that same madness.
Whilst in Turin, it began to take hold in interesting ways. At his lodgings, he used to dance around his room naked and maniacally play the piano to all hours.
This was shortly before the horse incident.
Luis Brown
Looking at letters and diary entries (like Cosima Wagner's) his eyesight went incredibly bad (mostly blind in one eye) in the mid 1880s. That can lead to visual hallucinations. Or the hallucinations and blindness can have the same cause.
Levi Nguyen
Depends what you mean by philosopher.
If you're an analytic philosopher: Yes. Your repetitive, menial academic tasks, like publishing and making connections at conferences, discussing semantic truth tables, etc, will turn your brain into dull, uninspired mush. Cf Johnson 2014; Pecker 2012; Quine 1964.
If you're a continental philosopher: You're treating Geist as your ontotheological horizon. Turn back to objects, mayne. #OOO?
If you're a philosopher: Ask better questions.
Brayden Taylor
If you're a philosopher, give better answers.
Nicholas Thomas
>philosophy >answers
Nathaniel Morgan
>philosophy
Leo Anderson
>smoking
Ryder Anderson
>Caring about health
Aaron Jones
>not caring about existence
Jonathan Bailey
>ayy lmao lets get trash in our bodies because we free famalam xP