Martin Heideggers begrep om omsorg som eksistensform og dets betydning for forståelsen av begrepet omsorg i omsorgsfag
Engelsk titel: Martin Heidegger’s concept of care as a form of existence and its relevance for understanding the concept of care in a professional context
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Författare:
Grelland, Hans Herlof
Email: hans.grelland@uia.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 5
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 18120009
Personnamn som ämnesord:
Heidegger, Martin; Kierkegaard, Sören
Sammanfattning
In this article we give a short presentation of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of care as a fundamental trait of the human way of existing in the world. Human beings can according to this philosophy not be reduced to passive spectators of the world or to an organism which just uses its environment for its own purposes, but we are at the outset a form of existence which relates to the world in a caring way. Since this is our basic way of existence, any lack of care is caused by a form of alienation in relation to ourselves and the world which Heidegger calls decaying into (German) «man», which is best translated as the «one»: we are not genuinely ourselves but do what «one» does. This form of alienation is then compared to Søren Kierkegaard’s concept of despair. This philosophical approach to the phenomenon of care is then compared to care as applied in a professional context. This leads to the following conclusion: since our existence is basically care, no profession can set a limit to our general caring responsibility. And: the practicing of professional care is based on our existence as care. At the end of the chapter, we present briefly empirical research supporting Heidegger’s philosophy of care as the human way of existing.