Timon din Atena, caz clasic de maladie axiologică

Abstract

In the article Illnesses and Deficiencies of Axiological Consciousness
from issue 13 of this journal, I presented arguments in favor of developing
philosophy along the lines of a medical theory that identifies and treats axiological
diseases—those illnesses that originate in our deviant desiderative acts and lead us
to behaviors that plunge us below the threshold of human dignity. Within that
framework, I also emphasized that this medical objective has been sporadically and
intuitively pursued, among others, by moralizing artists. In the present case, we
seek to identify one of the axiological diseases, misanthropy, and to illustrate it
through the figure of Timon of Athens.