On 9/6/13 11:09 AM, "David Buchanan" <[email protected]> wrote: > DMB > Can a psychopath be a good philosopher? > "Psychopathy (or sociopathy) is a personality trait or disorder characterised > partly by [1] enduring anti-social behavior, a [6]diminished capacity for empathy or remorse, and [9]poor behavioral controls." > Here's a checklist of the usual "Interpersonal/Affective" traits: > [1]Glibness/superficial charm. [2]Grandiose sense of self-worth. [3]Pathological lying. [4] Cunning/manipulative. [5]Lack of remorse or guilt. [6]Shallow affect (genuine emotion is short-lived and egocentric). [7]Callousness; lack of empathy. [8]Failure to accept responsibility for his or her own actions. > Dave: Excellent question! How open of you! Given your past unwavering (some might suggest fawning and uncritical) acceptance of Phaedrus's philosophy I wouldn't have expected you to even suggest such an idea.
OK let's take a quick look. If we divorce the "philosophical ramblings" from the actions and behavior of "character" Phaedrus in the two books and check them against your checklist is surprising how many of the traits do matchup. Except for "pathological lying," examples of the others abound. And how could we really know about that trait without an in-depth biography to compare with? Let's do a quick skim: Though inattentive [9] in his first university, the REAL reason for his failure was the "defect" in science[7]. Which essentially started his 50 year drift through life until he "corrected" it with the MoQ [2]. The whole motorcycle trip with his son smashed between his back and luggage[7][8][9]......... Phew! My bad, you meant Marsha. Thanks, DMB for clearing that up. As you can see from this little snippet would have been an arduous task to apply this theory to all of ZaMM and Lila. Probably it would be easier to take the fully texts and mark the appropriate passages with the nine traits. I suspect it would be cacophony of numbers. Thanks again, Dave Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
