Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition

Release on 2012-12-06 | by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka

... a cependant toujours présenté la prière comme instrument de guérison, soit dans le sens d'un recouvrement de la santé, soit dans le sens spirituel d'une pacification, de l'unification du cœur, de l'acceptation dans la paix de la ...

Life Interpretation and the Sense of Illness within the Human Condition

Author: Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789401007801
Category: Philosophy
Page: 287
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In medicine the understanding and interpretation of the complex reality of illness currently refers either to an organismic approach that focuses on the physical or to a 'holistic' approach that takes into account the patient's human sociocultural involvement. Yet as the papers of this collection show, the suffering human person refers ultimately to his/her existential sphere. Hence, praxis is supplemented by still other perspectives for valuation and interpretation: ethical, spiritual, and religious. Can medicine ignore these considerations or push them to the side as being subjective and arbitrary? Phenomenology/philosophy-of-life recognizes all of the above approaches to be essential facets of the Human Condition (Tymieniecka). This approach holds that all the facets of the Human Condition have equal objectivity and legitimacy. It completes the accepted medical outlook and points the way toward a new `medical humanism'.