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To be alive when dying: moral catharsis and hope in patients with limited life prognosis
dc.contributor.author | Vergara, Óscar | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-11T20:18:04Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-01-11T20:18:04Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Vergara, O. To be alive when dying: moral catharsis and hope in patients with limited life prognosis. Med Health Care and Philos 24, 517–527 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10028-1 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.issn | 1572-8633 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2183/34849 | |
dc.description.abstract | [Abstract]: The Stoics considered that in order to die well, one must previously have lived (well) and not merely existed, an assertion which will not be contested in this paper. The question raised here is whether an individual whose life expectancy is jeopardized by serious illness or whose life has not been lived to the ‘full’ for whatever reason should have to abandon all hope or,alternately, whether that life could still somehow be saved (in an ethical sense). One clear obstacle to achieving this stems from (bad) moral character, given that moral character is an element which conditions an individual’s moral behaviour, as pointed out by Beauchamp and Childress and particularly Pellegrino and Thomasma. The transformation of moral character requires time and effort but the testimonies of patients who have given their lives a radical new direction upon being diagnosed with a serious illness seem to show the existence of a peculiar phenomenon of moral catharsis. In this paper we attempt to illustrate that this alleged phenomenon is not the result of a kind of cataleptic impression but rather the result of a dialectic and narrative process, during which a first hope of healing is dashed, unveiling a new sense in the illness. Its fulfillment provides the patient with a final hope. | es_ES |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work is financed by the research project “The New Human Rights: legal theory and political praxis” (PID2019-111115 GB-I00), directed by P. Serna, financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation and Universities (2019–2021). | es_ES |
dc.language.iso | eng | es_ES |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2019-111115GB-I00/ES/LOS NUEVOS DERECHOS HUMANOS: TEORIA JURIDICA Y PRAXIS POLITICA | es_ES |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-021-10028-1 | es_ES |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. | es_ES |
dc.subject | Virtue ethics | es_ES |
dc.subject | Narrative ethics | es_ES |
dc.subject | Moral character | es_ES |
dc.subject | Moral catharsis | es_ES |
dc.subject | Suffering | es_ES |
dc.subject | Hope | es_ES |
dc.title | To be alive when dying: moral catharsis and hope in patients with limited life prognosis | es_ES |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es_ES |
dc.rights.access | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es_ES |
UDC.journalTitle | Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | es_ES |
UDC.volume | 24 | es_ES |
UDC.issue | 4 | es_ES |
UDC.startPage | 517 | es_ES |
UDC.endPage | 527 | es_ES |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11019-021-10028-1 |
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