Folly, Mental Health, Disembodiment

Abstract

Maori World-View (a pre-industrial cultures' episteme of an individual intricate relationships to Nature and others) exemplifies Aristotles Good and the concept of embodied proportionality. Maori World-View is a window through which to understand embodiment, proportionality and The Good otherwise obscured by Cartesian and Ramist methodology. In modern 'Mental Health' practice of risk assessment, there has been a disembodiment, a disproportionality and loss of the end of the Good. This loss is best approached through the historicity of Shakespeares' Twelfth Night for varied reasons. Twelfth Night shows us that an embodied personal performance within a distemperature (mild 'mental health' illness) requires a critical distance from technology and retrieval of proportionality, individuated in any pre-industrial culture.