KMID : 0614820030090030329
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Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration 2003 Volume.9 No. 3 p.329 ~ p.335
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Sensibility and ethics of responsibility for the other in nursing: Based on E. Levinas¢¥s ethics
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Kong Byung-Hye
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Abstract
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to inquiry a philosophical foundation for the nursing ethics according to the Levinas¢¥ etlucs which had emphasis on face to face infer--personal relationship and responsibility for the vulnerable other.
Method: First of gill, for the foundation of nursing ethics, a underst~~nding of human vulnerability was a starting point; the nurses bodily sensibility was regarded as a basis for the pt~ssibility of the ethical interpersonal relationship. Then, based on Levinas¢¥s ethics, it was erplz>ined how the moral resp
Result: Nursing implied the altruistic ethic~~l dimension on the subject of the responsibility for the vulnerable other. A nurse as ethical subject in her sensitive passivity is affected by the suffering .other and exposed to the other. A nurse herself/himself has to response to the ethical demand of suffering; other and to take responsibility for it. After all, based on the Levinas¢¥s ethics, the ethical interpersonal relationship could be characterized as the face to face relation, and responsibility for the suffering other.
Conclusion: In view of that, his ethical approach could be a proper theory for the explanation of the face to face relationshii~ and altruistic feather of the nursing ethics based human bodily sensibility.
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KEYWORD
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nursing ethics, body, sensibility, responsibility, other
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