Status Updates From History of Madness

e não é que esse arrombado escreve bem?

Stultifera Navis begins in the Middle Ages of Europe, where madness exists in darkness and akin to death, and transitions to the Renaissance, when madness becomes "part of the measures of reason." I found it intriguing that Foucault touches on how madness holds the extremes of reason, that it "hides and shows, speaks truth and lies, and is both shadow and light."

Stultifera Navis: "But if knowledge is important for madness, it is not because madness might hold some vital secrets: on the contrary it is the punishment for useless, unregulated knowledge."

“There was a degree of obviousness about the [mad being], an immediate assessment of [their] features, which seems correlative to the non-determination of madness itself. The less precise madness was, the easier the mad were to recognize.”

“Paradoxically, having no unmistakeable signs nor positive presence, it presented itself with a sort of calm immediacy, on the surface of the world, with no possible distance for doubt. Only it did not offer itself then as madness but rather as a recognizable type, as the other mad [being].”

Madness is “present everywhere, but never in that which made it what it is”.

“Madness is the side of order that goes unperceived, which ensures that [human], despite [their Self], is the instrument of a wisdom whose end he does not understand. Madness measures the distance that exists between foresight and providence, between calculation and finality.”

“everything that nature does not obtain from our reason, it obtains through our madness”