Philosophie in der Medizin
Ausgabe: 2/2019
65. Jahrgang
Herausforderungen der Freiheit
As a psychiatrist Karl Jaspers (18831969) got to know the relationship between the physician and the patient to know concretely. On his way of becoming a philosopher of existence he presented a Socratic model of interaction between both that he described later in his term existential communication. In the enlarged edition of his General Psychopathology Jaspers introduced anthropological and ethical considerations concerning the physician-patient-relationship. They stressed the individual responsibility for possible speculations in the horizon of ultimate or final questions of life conduct. Against leading representatives of psychoanalysis and psychosomatics Jaspers is taking a Kantian position, whose actual example he recognizes in Max Weber´s value orientated idea of sciences. That Weber is encountering the challenges of freedom in a more pluralistic way than Kant is barely acceptable for Jaspers.
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