Phenomenology and the Ethics of Love

Symposium ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-109
Author(s):  
Ellie Anderson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Existential Phenomenology ◽  
Loved One ◽  
True Love ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Central Form ◽  
Ethical Relationships

Phenomenologists have long viewed love as a central form of inter-subjective engagement. I show here that it is also of concern to phenomenological ethics. After establishing the relation of phenomenology to ethics, I show that both classical and existential phenomenology view love as an act of valuing the loved one. I argue that a second act of valuing is latent in phenomenology: valuing the relationship. These values are evident in the phenomenological distinction between true love, which generates a “perspective in difference,” and false love, which seeks union with the beloved manifesting in devotion and/or jealousy. Because culturally dominant heteronormative scripts incline individuals toward false love, lovers should create their own pacts for ethical relationships. I consider consensually non-monogamous relationships as an example.

The Relationship Between Efl Reading And Existential-Phenomenology

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-47
Author(s):  
Leyla Tercanlioglu ◽  
◽  
Oktay Akarsu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Existential Phenomenology ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Experiences of mothers and fathers of children and adolescents with cancer: a phenomenological-existential Heideggerian approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 554-562 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriella Michel dos Santos Benedetti ◽  
Ieda Harumi Higarashi ◽  
Catarina Aparecida Sales
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Existential Phenomenology ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Mothers And Fathers ◽  
Existential Needs

This study was based in Heideggerian existential phenomenology, and aims to understand the experiences of mothers/fathers of children and adolescents with cancer. A total of 13 parents of eight patients attended by a charitable association participated, between December 2011 and March 2012. They were asked the question: how has it been for you to experience having a child with cancer? Three issues emerged from the analysis: experiencing the being-present and the being-absent of the loved one; sharing the existential sadness of the child; and learning with the ill child. It was evidenced that these parents experience unexpected transformations in their routine, triggering uncertainties, fears and distress. The same distress that makes them suffer in this world, however, makes them understand the existential condition of the child and of themselves. It is essential that professionals - such as those of nursing - transpose the technical-scientific care and seek to understand these existential needs with a view to offering comprehensive and humanized care.

Relationship to the Bereaved and Perceptions of Severity of Trauma Differentiate Elements of Posttraumatic Growth

2011 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deanne Armstrong ◽  
Jane Shakespeare-Finch
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Degree Relative ◽  
Loved One ◽  
General Trauma ◽  
Growth Outcomes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second Degree

The field of bereavement and grief has been expanding to recognise the potential for growth following the loss of a loved one. This study sought to examine the effect of the relationship to the deceased and perceptions of the severity of the trauma on dimensions of posttraumatic growth. Participants were 146 people who had lost either: a) a first degree relative, b) a second degree relative, or c) a non-related friend. Results demonstrated that both severity and the relationship to the bereaved differentiate posttraumatic growth outcomes. For example, participants who had lost a first degree relative reported higher levels of growth than those who had lost a second degree relative. Consistent with previous research in general trauma populations, the more severe the loss was rated, the higher the levels of growth. Implications for practice are discussed.

Caring for a Loved One With Alzheimer’s Disease

2012 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
pp. 579-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Van Liew ◽  
Terry A. Cronan
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Social Burden ◽  
Independent Variable ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Objective: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is associated with considerable caregiver and social burden. It is important to examine ways to minimize the negative effects of AD. Health care advocates (HCAs) may be one means of limiting the aversive effects of AD. Method: Participants completed a short survey that assessed their perceptions of the impact of comorbid AD on health status and their likelihood of hiring an HCA to assist in managing it. A mediational model was proposed: cognitive status (AD vs cognitively healthy) was the independent variable, perception of severity was the mediator, and the probability of hiring an HCA was the dependent variable. Results: The results indicated that the relationship between cognitive status and probability of hiring an HCA was fully mediated by perceptions of severity. Conclusion: This study demonstrated that participants appreciated the impact of AD on health status, and this translated into a greater probability of hiring an HCA.

Bereavement

2019 ◽  
pp. 390-404
Author(s):  
Inge B. Corless ◽  
Janice Bell Meisenhelder
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Middle Aged ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Middle Aged Adult ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Levels Of Support

“Bereaved” is the term used for those who have experienced the death of a loved one. Deaths of family members and close friends require various degrees of adjustment depending on the relationship, the ages of the deceased and the bereaved, and the circumstances of the death. In some cases, the death of a loved one will occur when the bereaved is at a younger age, and, in other situations, the death may occur when the individual is a middle-aged adult. Death has consequences for those who survive. Some of these ramifications are emotional and psychosocial and others financial. The variety of circumstances and the levels of support make each situation somewhat individual although there are commonalities. This chapter explores some of those commonalities and the supports that can help the bereaved accommodate to the loss.

Mutuality and Mission: A No "Other" Way

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Nothwehr
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
The Poor ◽  
True Love ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Power Needs ◽  
Traditional Norms ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIn mission, it is not only that one practices love and justice, but also how one practices these virtues that makes the difference in the thriving of humankind. True love and justice require impassioned radical empowerment exemplified by the Incarnation; first, a full identification with poverty and abjectness, and then the relinquishment of power by the powerful and a taking up of power by the poor and the marginalized. This exchange of power needs to be based on mutuality. The present article defines and briefly elaborates on mutuality in its four forms. It then shows what mutuality illuminates and delimits and then indicates the relationship of mutuality to the traditional norms of love and justice. Finally, it indicates how consideration of mutuality can make a difference in mission.

Continental Associations for the Ancrene Riwle

PMLA ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 1180-1189 ◽  
Author(s):  
John H. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Saint Paul ◽  
Seven Deadly Sins ◽  
True Love ◽  
The Hours ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Own Name ◽  
The Relationship

In 1940 Miss Hope Emily Allen called attention to the relationship between The Tretyse of Loue and the Ancrene Riwle.1 The Tretyse of Loue, one of the six books printed at Caxton's press between the time of Caxton's death (c. 1491) and his successor Wynkyn de Worde's first book under his own name (Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection, 1494),2 is a compilation of ten devotional tracts, from the first and longest of which it takes its name. This first piece, (1) The Tretyse of Loue proper, is an expansion and adaptation of Part vil of the Riwle,3 dealing with the nature and virtue of spiritual love. The (2) Meditation on the Hours of the Cross and (3) Remedies Against the Seven Deadly Sins belong with the Tretyse by virtue of their similar dedication to a very wealthy lady4 and by the borrowings from the Riwle found in the latter. After an intermediate conclusion which may mark the end of the original compilation, there follow seven shorter tracts on various subjects. They are (4) The Three Signs of True Love and Friendship, three pages of meditations on Christ's love; (5) The Branches of the Appletree, a mystical treatise which, because of its significance in connection with the origin and provenance of the compilation, is the particular subject of this discussion; (6) The Seven Signs of Jesus' Love; (7) An Exhortation by Faith, five pages of moral exhortation; (8) Nine Articles of Master Albert of Cologne; (9) Diverse Sayings of Saint Paul and Others; and (10) The Six Masters on Tribulation.

scholarly journals Derek Jarman’s Allegories of Spectacle: Inter-Artistic Embodiment

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Fátima Chinita
Keyword(s):  
Existential Phenomenology ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
Abstract Approach ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
Derek Jarman ◽  
Cinematic Experience ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
Hybrid Art ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Derek Jarman was a multifaceted artist whose intermedial versatility reinforces a strong authorial discourse. He constructs an immersive allegorical world of hybrid art where different layers of cinematic, theatrical and painterly materials come together to convey a lyrical form and express a powerful ideological message. In Caravaggio (1986) and Edward II (1991), Jarman approaches two European historical figures from two different but concomitant perspectives. In Caravaggio, through the use of tableaux of abstract meaning and by focusing on the detailing of the models’ poses, Jarman re-enacts the allegorical spirit of Caravaggio’s paintings through entirely cinematic resources. Edward II was a king, and as a statesman he possessed a certain dose of showmanship. In this film Jarman reconstructs the theatrical basis of Christopher Marlowe’s Elizabethan play bringing it up to date in a successfully abstract approach to the musical stage. In this article, I intend to conjoin the practice of allegory in film with certain notions of existential phenomenology as advocated by Vivian Sobchack and Laura U. Marks, in order to address the relationship between the corporeality of the film and the lived bodies of the spectators. In this context, the allegory is a means to convey intradiegetically the sense-ability at play in the cinematic experience, reinforcing the textural and sensual nature of both film and viewer, which, in turn, is also materially enhanced in the film proper, touching the spectator in a supplementary fashion. The two corporealities favour an inter-artistic immersion achieved through coenaesthesia.

Post-Traumatic Growth After the Drug-Related Death of a Loved One: Understanding the Influence of Self-Compassion and Hope

2021 ◽  
pp. 106648072110524
Author(s):  
Katharine R. Sperandio ◽  
Daniel Gutierrez ◽  
Meghan Kirk ◽  
Jessica Lopez ◽  
W. Nathaniel Mason
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Self Compassion ◽  
Post Traumatic Growth ◽  
Meaningful Relationship ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
The Relationship

The interaction between self-compassion, hope, and posttraumatic growth (PTG) following the loss of a loved one to a drug related death (DRD) has been largely unexplored in the current literature. This study examines the interaction between the constructs of hope and self-compassion as they impact PTG among those who are in bereavement from a DRD. For the purposes of this study a “loved one” is defined as anyone who had a meaningful relationship with the person who is now deceased. We examined the associations between self-compassion, PTG and hope using structural equation modeling with a sample of 292 individuals who experienced the DRD of a loved one. Our analysis shows that self-compassion serves as a predictor for PTG when operating independently from hope. When the construct of hope is introduced, it serves as a powerful mediator on the relationship between self-compassion and PTG following bereavement by a DRD. These results suggest that the facilitation of the psychospiritual constructs of hope and self-compassion during the counseling process following the loss of a loved one to a DRD can serve to support PTG.

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