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Action, Ability and Health: Essays in the Philosophy of Action and Welfare
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Veröffentlichung: |
Dezember 2010
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Genre: |
Philosophie |
ISBN: |
9789048154128 |
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9789048154128 |
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Springer Netherlands |
Einband: |
Kartoniert |
Sprache: |
English
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Dimensionen: |
H 235 mm / B 155 mm / D 11 mm |
Gewicht: |
300 gr |
Seiten: |
192 |
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Paperback |
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This book is a part of the ongoing enterprise to understand the nature of human health and illness. This enterprise has expanded dramatically during the last decades. A great number of articles, as weIl as a fair number of monographs, on this topic have been published by renowned international publishers. In this discussion most participants share the idea that health is a partially normative concept, Le. that health is not a phe nomenon which can be wholly characterised in biological (or otherwise descriptive) terms. To ascribe health to a person is eo ipso, according to this line of thought, to as cribe a positively evaluated property to this person. Moreover, most debators share the idea that health is a holistic property, belonging to the person as a whole, whereas dis eases, injuries and defects are entities (or properties of entities) which can be very lim ited and and normally affect only a part of the individual. My own monograph belongs to this tradition. A feature of my position, which is not universally acknowledged in riyal theories, however, is my emphasis on the notion of ability as a fundament in the theory of health. In my formal characterisation of health I view it as astate of a person which is such that the person has the ability to fulfi1 his or her vital goals. |
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