癒しの根拠 : ヴィクトル・フォン・ワイツゼッカーの思想を手がかりに

抄録

According to Viktor von Weizsaker, medical anthropology intends to introduce subjectivity into biology and medicine, but human disease is more than objective facts. Every human existence has to be regarded as a moral being and any illness essentially belongs to that person. Man is homo patiens. The differences between the mathematical or physical and the biological concepts of space and time are very important. In the perspective of von Weizsakers Gestalttheorie the living organism does not move itself in space and time but move the space with time. In regard to the ontological equivalence of body and soul it is not possible, for example, to speak of psychogenesis of angina pectoris. The concept of causality is in general too limited and total to understand the suffering man and his disease. The law of life is based on a ground relationship (Grund-Verhaltnis). Subjects and objects belong together, the biological phenomenon-like disease cannot be understood merely as an object without subject. The holistic approach is important for the relationship between physician and patient. The grounds of life cannot be known, and it is not the object of science. Both to become healthy and to become ill are based on the basic relationship, i.e. the relation of life to its grounds.