Don’t forget the diagnosis of philosophical intoxication, as credited by the Soviet psychiatry to David Hume. They might also have cited the French school of Lélut, Calmet, and Baillarger, to a similar effect. However, I prefer the administrative approach to this issue, attributed by Cicero to Gellius via Phaedrus and Atticus, and commemorated in De Legibus1.53:
me Athenis audire ex Phaedro meo memini Gellium, familiarem tuum, cum pro consule ex praetura in Graeciam venisset essetque Athenis, philosophos, qui tum erant, in locum unum convocasse ipsisque magno opere auctorem fuisse, ut aliquando controversiarum aliquem facerent modum; quodsi essent eo animo, ut nollent aetatem in litibus conterere, posse rem convenire; et simul operam suam illis esse pollicitum, si posset inter eos aliquid convenire.
I recall hearing the following story in Athens from my friend Phaedrus about your friend Gellius. When he had arrived in Greece as proconsul after his praetorship and was in Athens, he called together the philosophers who were there at the time, and urgently advised them to come at last to some settlement of their disagreements. He said that if they did not wish to waste their lives in argument, the matter could be settled, and at the same time he promised his own best efforts to aid them in coming to some agreement.
Cicero makes no mention of Gellius ordering Haloperidol and Quetiapine as alternatives to natural attainment of apatheia and ataraxia.
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Date: 2009-01-06 04:38 am (UTC)