The term psychopathy refers to a personality disorder associated with callous personality traits and antisocial behaviors. Throughout its research history, psychopathy has frequently been described as a peculiar form of moral blindness, engendering a narrative about a patient stereotype incapable of taking a genuine moral perspective, similar to a blind person who is deprived of proper visual perceptions. However, recent empirical research has shown that clinically diagnosed psychopaths are morally more fit than initially thought, and the blindness-analogy now comes across as largely misleading. In this contribution, the moral-blindness analogy is explored in an attempt to qualify anew its relevance in psychopathy theory and research. It is demonstrated that there are indeed theoretically relevant parallels to be drawn between blindness and psychopathy, parallels that are especially illuminating when accounting for the potential symptomatology, dimensionality, and etiological nature of the disorder.

术语“精神病”是指与残酷的人格特质和反社会行为相关的人格障碍。在整个研究历史中，精神病经常被描述为道德失明的一种特殊形式，产生了一种对患者刻板印象的叙述，这种刻板印象无法采取真正的道德观点，类似于被剥夺了正确视觉感知的盲人。然而，最近的实证研究表明，从临床上诊断出的精神病患者在道德上比最初的想法更合适，并且盲目性类比现在普遍具有误导性。在这一贡献中，探索了道德盲法类比，以试图重新确定其在精神病理论和研究中的相关性。