Philosophy Wire: Chopin’s madness and the oppression of “logic” people

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-01-25]: Scientists reached the conclusion that Chopin suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, which caused him to have frequent hallucinations. [source] Many people who have hallucinations are characterized as “mad”. But what is the difference between genius and mad people? Most geniuses, like Nietzsche or Gödel, had characteristics which would easily result in their classification as “mad”. “Madness” is many times the opinion which opposes the opinion of the majority. And only a genius can avoid being incarcerated into an asylum…

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