Somehow I never came across this when working on Human Accomplishment. Remarkable.pic.twitter.com/1DOGUjZIDE
Aspergers may have played a role in both the philosophizing and the difficulties with relationships.
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René Descartes had a daughter (Francine). Her death at age five was his greatest sorrow.
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Descartes never married the mother because he was Catholic and she was Protestant.
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In Søren Kierkegaard ,- depersonalisation disorder.
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I had the same thought.
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I would be very surprised if Smith were on the spectrum. His Theory of Moral Sentiments is one of the most profoundly and I think instinctively grounded appreciations of the emotional life of mankind ever written. He was inordinately devoted to his mother however.
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Being on the spectrum doesn't mean you have no morals, or appreciate emotional life. That's psychopathy
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Walter Kaufmann develops this idea as “sublimation” in “Nietzsche
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That was a response to Mr Murray - sorry for the tag
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