The dimension of Pathos in Philosophy and classical Psychiatry

Abstract

This article is the result of a conceptual investigation, from the perspectives of Philosophy and classical Psychiatry, which makes a journey through the disease observing the variation that exists in the conception of pathos, included in the line of research : Subjectivity and Mental Health, belonging to the Research Group in Subject Psychology, Society and Work, of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín. The article aims to trace the concept of pathos in the ancient world, in relation to the ethical dimension as physis, in the Middle Ages, where it is thought through a theological conception of the world, and in Modernity, where pathos It becomes mental illness from the scientific conception of the world.