The Philosophy Of Schizophrenia
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Phil-229
Trinity College
In his book, The Paradoxes of Delusion, Louis Sass attempts to rebut two of most
prevalent beliefs of the schizophrenic person. He argues that by viewing the
schizophrenic delusions in light of solipsism, a philosophy of existence, the
schizophrenic may seem far more understandable. Through his comparison of the
schizophrenic and solipsist realities, Sass explains that not only is schizophrenia
understandable, but that there exists within the structure of schizophrenic delusion a
seemingly self-contradictory state which in actuality approximates a sort of logic more
than anything else. Thus, according to Sass, schizophrenia should not be deemed a state
of unreason, but rather a reason which results from a dual conceptualization of the
reality.
Sass first...