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El estado oculto de la salud
A diferencia de otras artes, la "obra" del arte de curar es invisible, su "forma" más perfecta es la ausencia de la enfermedad. Por ser ésta su paradójica excelencia y también su aparente precariedad, desde la Grecia antigua algunos filósofos trataron de defender la tarea del médico ante la opinión pública. Hans-Georg Gadamer retoma esta antigua tradición para ofrecernos una importante reflexión sobre lo esencialmente humano de la medicina, sobre el auténtico saber del médico que comienza en el momento en que hay que tomar decisiones más allá de los recursos de las ciencias objetivas. El estado de salud, tanto físico como psíquico, es el equilibrio entre múltiples factores y para conocerlo hay que comprender e interpretar este estado, que en cada persona es distinto. Por eso, Gadamer compara la tarea del médico con la de la hermenéutica filosófica. El conjunto de esta obra constituye una Filosofía de la Medicina que incluye múltiples aspectos desde la ética, la historia y teoría de la ciencia, hasta el análisis de los conceptos de inteligencia, de perturbación mental y de las ideas clásicas y modernas sobre el significado profundo e intersubjetivo de curar. Este texto respira la profunda y generosa sabiduría de un filósofo que nació con el siglo y que a través de él, sus sombras y luces perseveró en el oficio de pensar.
192 pages, Paperback
First published July 16, 2012
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Hans-Georg Gadamer
273 books309 followersHans-Georg Gadamer was born February 11, 1900 in Marburg, Germany.
(Arabic: هانز جورج غادامير)
Gadamer showed an early aptitude for studies in philosophy and after receiving his doctoral degree in 1922 he went on to work directly under Martin Heidegger for a period of five years. This had a profound and lasting effect on Gadamer's philosophical progression.
Gadamer was a teacher for most of his life, and published several important works: Truth and Method is considered his magnum opus. In this work Heidegger's notion of hermeneutics is seen clearly: hermeneutics is not something abstract that one can pick up and leave at will, but rather is something that one does at all times. To both Heidegger and to Gadamer, hermeneutics is not restricted to texts but to everything encountered in one's life.
Gadamer is most well-known for the notion of a horizon of interpretation, which states that one does not simply interpret something, but that in the act of interpretation one becomes changed as well. In this way, he takes some of the notions from Heidegger's Being and Time, notably that which Heidegger had to say about prejudgements and their role in interpreting and he turns them into a more positive notion: Gadamer sees every act and experience (which is a hermeneutical experience to a Gadamerian) as a chance to call into question and to change those prejudgements, for in the horizon of interpretation those prejudgements are not forever fixed.
Gadamer is considered the most important writer on the nature and task of hermeneutics of the 20th century, which was still widely considered a niche within Biblical studies until Truth and Method was widely read and discussed.
He died at the age of 102 in Heidelberg (March, 2002).
(Arabic: هانز جورج غادامير)
Gadamer showed an early aptitude for studies in philosophy and after receiving his doctoral degree in 1922 he went on to work directly under Martin Heidegger for a period of five years. This had a profound and lasting effect on Gadamer's philosophical progression.
Gadamer was a teacher for most of his life, and published several important works: Truth and Method is considered his magnum opus. In this work Heidegger's notion of hermeneutics is seen clearly: hermeneutics is not something abstract that one can pick up and leave at will, but rather is something that one does at all times. To both Heidegger and to Gadamer, hermeneutics is not restricted to texts but to everything encountered in one's life.
Gadamer is most well-known for the notion of a horizon of interpretation, which states that one does not simply interpret something, but that in the act of interpretation one becomes changed as well. In this way, he takes some of the notions from Heidegger's Being and Time, notably that which Heidegger had to say about prejudgements and their role in interpreting and he turns them into a more positive notion: Gadamer sees every act and experience (which is a hermeneutical experience to a Gadamerian) as a chance to call into question and to change those prejudgements, for in the horizon of interpretation those prejudgements are not forever fixed.
Gadamer is considered the most important writer on the nature and task of hermeneutics of the 20th century, which was still widely considered a niche within Biblical studies until Truth and Method was widely read and discussed.
He died at the age of 102 in Heidelberg (March, 2002).
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November 13, 2025
boníssim, lo milloret que he llegit per pensar críticament la medicina dominant al nivell Canguilhem i Foucault. L'hermenèutica de Gadamer permet tirar pel terra el postivisme que impera en la medicina d'occident sense caure en relativismes. Referències a Plató i defensa (una mica romantitzada) de la medicina de família, tot el que vull. Ara hauré de llegir Veritar i Mètode aixxxxxx
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March 24, 2019
Aristóteles tenía razón: el alma es la vitalidad del cuerpo.
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