We are hearing reports of a new era of ‘cosmetic psychopharmacology’, in which drugs will be used to treat not only clinical depression, but daily mood swings and existential angst.
To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
So if ‘cosmetic psychopharmacology’ gets rid of such Shakespearian angsting then it is farewell then to Kierkegaard and Heidegger or to Sartre who claimed 'I know I am alive through my angst.'
To be, or not to be, that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die—to sleep,
So if ‘cosmetic psychopharmacology’ gets rid of such Shakespearian angsting then it is farewell then to Kierkegaard and Heidegger or to Sartre who claimed 'I know I am alive through my angst.'
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