死と死につつあること : 臨床哲学と実存主義-ロマン主義的医療の可能性

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Preface There two main factors of the European metaphysics of philosophical thinking: the first has been to think through experience even though the ideal thoughts should have a main position, the second has been to seek to know the self, just as Socrates did. However the Japanese researchers do not necessarily have such academical tendencies, when they try to read and understand European philosophies. Clinical philosophy, the elements of which should be the experience and the self, can be constructed and practiced by us in every day iife. 1. Death and the Dying The German sociological researcher Franco Rest asserts that the concept of death is unthinkable and only the concept of dying is thinkable. Because dying is the terminal part of an entire life. But this is not correct. Through ideal histories of care we can see that life and death are complementary. We must treat such a complementarity as a most important idea. when we think of what expenence is. 2. the Existential-Romantic Medicine Oliver Sacks. whose book Awakenings is very famous, proposes a existential-romantic medicine. He says. " this is the rationale of an 'existence' therapy: not to instruct but to inspire to inspire with art to combat the inert. to inspire with the personal and living, and, in the directest sense possible to awaken and quicken ". Existential-romantic medicine is directed to the personality, the freedom, and the identilication of the patients in the dialogue between the living I and I through the daily experience ofthe daily life. 3. Clinical Philosophy The clinical philosophy may be the tradition of the European metaphysics. At the same time it should be the possibility of thinking about human living concrete and the power of the healing.