Violent Ideas Treated as Disease and Compassionate Reasoning as Treatment

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-169
Author(s):  
Marc Gopin
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Moral Reasoning ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Health Official ◽  
The Human Condition

The tendency to obey bullies generates the most violent ideas, but they can be overcome by training in Compassionate Reasoning and elicitive peacebuilding. This entails drawing wisdom from each person, thus building peace between groups. Enter the sciences of medicine and public health. The helping professional—the nurse, the doctor, the epidemiologist, or the health official—makes moment-to-moment decisions in order to save lives. This includes honoring and listening to each patient and their unique needs. The practitioner looks at scientific studies of the human condition across cultures, and also contexts of mental health, family, community, and environment. Public health focuses on health more than illness. Compassion cultivation, imagination, self-control, meaningfulness, and a future orientation are essential. A focus on contagion and epidemiology can be applied by Compassionate Reasoning toward threats against compassion practice and moral reasoning, as well identifying opportunities for the positive “contagion” of compassion and collective reasoning.

Sophocles’ Ajax: A Matter of Judgment

Antichthon ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 18-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary M. Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Code Of Conduct ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Emotional Appeal ◽  
The Human Condition

Ajax is unmatched among the works of Sophocles in its barren, cruel atmosphere and its repulsive view of society. The dominant mood is hatred; sometimes it simply breaks out; but always it is there in language and action. Ajax’ curious emotional appeal to us was noted by earlier critics. ‘Odysseus is the wise man, Odysseus adopts the correct attitude, but it is to Ajax that the heart goes out.’ More recently, Kitto and Knox have modified the conception of an Ajax deserving of our pity. His suffering is largely self-inflicted, and is admirable solely because he labours so fiercely to purge his reputation of the damage caused by his wrongdoing. ‘Ajax had little Wisdom in the handling of his life, and his lack of Wisdom destroyed him, but nevertheless Ajax was magnificent.’ This view typifies the conventional opinion. Knox finds the essential issue to be the inadequacy of the old morality (τούς μέν φίλους εΰ ποιεϊν, τούς δ’ έχϑρούς κακῶς — to help your friends, harm your enemies). Its disadvantages are illustrated in Ajax’ blind retaliation at whatever cost. Knox builds a superb case from the scene where Ajax awakens to the fluctuation of human relationships in his famous soliloquy about the inroads of time (646 ff.). The instinctive resilience and self-control of Odysseus make him the triumphant figure. Indeed, the emergence of these qualities softens and harmonizes a discordant presentation of the hybris-ate motif. ‘The nature of man’s life in time, its instability, is recognized by all three parties, Ajax, Odysseus, the Atridae. The only code of conduct proper to such a vision of the human condition is that of Odysseus, a tolerant and tragic humility.’

scholarly journals The human condition of the nursing worker from the perspective of Hannah Arendt

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanna Gomes de Sousa ◽  
Soraya Maria de Medeiros ◽  
Viviane Euzébia Pereira Santos ◽  
Rayrla Cristina de Abreu Temoteo ◽  
Jovanka Bittencourt Leite de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Psychosocial Care ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Mental Health Workers ◽  
Work Context ◽  
Vita Activa ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Human Condition

ABSTRACT Objective: This study intends to analyze how the human condition of the nurse is established in the context of Psychosocial Care Centers (Caps). Method: theoretical-reflexive study, anchored in three essential parts: 1) Theoretical and philosophical conception of the human condition from Hannah Arendt’s perspective; 2) The nurse’s work in the Caps; and 3) Human condition to think about the work of the nurse. Results: in the context of the Caps, the work can be represented by the psychic significations; the work, through the production of nurses’ practice of care; and the action by the relations established between worker and institution, worker and user. Final considerations: the understanding of the vita activa allows to reflect on the human condition of the nurse in their work context and (re) considers a better understanding about the impact of the work on the life of these mental health workers in the contemporaneity.

The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Bioethics of Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Marianna Gensabella Furnari ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Collective Responsibility ◽  
Ethical Principle ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
New Beginning ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Human Condition

"The lecture illustrates how three fundamental dimensions of the human condition (vulnerability, interdependence, uncertainty), highlighted by the pandemic, are also at the root of the bioethics of care. In the first model proposed by Warren T. Reich, the bioethics of care is, in fact, based on Heidegger’s concept of Care and its link with vulnerability. It is proposed that two fundamental principles that remain implicit in the bioethics of care derive from this link: the principle of responsibility and the principle of solidarity. In the first part of the lecture, the theme-problem of preparedness is viewed in light of the principle of responsibility. Dwelling on Hans Jonas’s ideas on responsibility, I examine the duty of fore-seeing and its implications: the heuristics of fear, the difficulty of the shift from individual to collective responsibility, ultimately opposing the parental paradigm of responsibility proposed by Jonas with the paradigm of fraternity. In the second part, the relationship of interdependence between individual health and public health is examined, highlighting the marked inequalities that remain. Starting with some reflections on the principle of solidarity and its relationship with responsibility, the shift from the “fact” of interdependence to the ethical principle of solidarity is retraced, also through the rereading of an opinion issued by Italy’s National Bioethics Council (CNB) in 2020. This shift is seen in conclusion as both utopian and necessary if we are to re-interpret the pandemic emergency as a crisis that may result in a new beginning. "

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