Frierson Patrick
Philosophy Department, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA 99362, USA.
Hist Psychiatry. 2009 Sep;20(79 Pt 3):290-310. doi: 10.1177/0957154X08337644.
This paper considers various philosophical problems arising from Kant's account of mental disorder. Starting with the reasons why Kant considered his theory of mental disorder important, I then turn to the implications of this theory of Kant's metaphysics, epistemology and ethics. Given Kant's account of insanity as 'a totally different standpoint... from which one sees all objects differently' (7: 216), the Critique of Pure Reason should be read as offering a more social epistemology than typically recognized. Also, mental disorders that seem to undermine human freedom and rationality raise problems for Kant's moral philosophy that his pragmatic anthropology helps to mitigate. Finally, I propose some implications of Kant's account of mental disorder for contemporary work on mental illness.
本文探讨了康德关于精神错乱的论述所引发的各种哲学问题。首先阐述康德认为其精神错乱理论重要的原因，接着转向该理论对康德的形而上学、认识论和伦理学的影响。鉴于康德将精神错乱描述为“一种全然不同的视角……从这个视角看，所有对象都截然不同”（7: 216），《纯粹理性批判》应被解读为提供了一种比通常所认识到的更为社会认识论的理论。此外，那些看似会破坏人类自由与理性的精神错乱，给康德的道德哲学带来了问题，而他的实用人类学有助于缓解这些问题。最后，我提出康德关于精神错乱的论述对当代精神疾病研究工作的一些启示。
