GENIUS STATE OF MIND – DETERMINATION OR EFFECT?

Authors

  • Vlad Cristian DEAC PhD candidate, Doctoral School of Philosophy, Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: vlad.deac@gmail.com.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2019.spiss.09

Keywords:

genius, creative suffering, bipolar disorder, extended consciousness, Nietzsche

Abstract

Genius State of Mind – Determination or Effect? Through this paper I put together philosophical aspects and also medical ones regarding Nietzsche’s mental disorders. The analyze is based on three different discussions on modeling or creative suffering, bipolar disorder and altered states of consciousness ‒ extended consciousness and will show us some interesting findings, one of them is that the bipolar disorder II that Nietzsche was suffering of, could be the trigger point for it’s genius state of mind. Also in the discussions chapter some questions regarding genius are raised.

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STUDIA UBB PHILOSOPHIA, Volume 64 (LXIV), Special Issue, November 2019

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2019-11-30

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DEAC, V. C. (2019). GENIUS STATE OF MIND – DETERMINATION OR EFFECT?. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia, 64(Special Issue), 119 –. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphil.2019.spiss.09

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Volume 64, Special Issue, November 2019

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