A Virtue Ethical Approach to Interpretation of the Suffering Other
In this article my aim is to take up a thread from an article by Svend Brinkmann, wherein he is anxious to show that mental suffering cannot exclusively be explained within the narrow vocabulary of medical diagnosis systems, but can, an should be, be articulated through a large range of ‘interpretiv...
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| description | In this article my aim is to take up a thread from an article by Svend Brinkmann, wherein he is anxious to show that mental suffering cannot exclusively be explained within the narrow vocabulary of medical diagnosis systems, but can, an should be, be articulated through a large range of ‘interpretive vocabularies’ (Brinkmann 2014). In line with Brinkmann’s emphasis on the large range of possible interpretive vocabularies, I will engage the moral philosopher Iris Murdoch to show how the exploration of different possible interpretations of a particular client’s situation is in fact an ethical task, which requires the practitioner’s personal development of virtue in terms of selfless, loving attention as the precondition for a realistic interpretation of the client’s situation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f3f1f0c432064f2d96dd6cced12a40582022-12-22T03:26:31ZengState Library & Aalborg UniversityQualitative Studies1903-70312021-01-016114215710.7146/qs.v6i1.124455117692A Virtue Ethical Approach to Interpretation of the Suffering OtherAnne Eggert StevnsIn this article my aim is to take up a thread from an article by Svend Brinkmann, wherein he is anxious to show that mental suffering cannot exclusively be explained within the narrow vocabulary of medical diagnosis systems, but can, an should be, be articulated through a large range of ‘interpretive vocabularies’ (Brinkmann 2014). In line with Brinkmann’s emphasis on the large range of possible interpretive vocabularies, I will engage the moral philosopher Iris Murdoch to show how the exploration of different possible interpretations of a particular client’s situation is in fact an ethical task, which requires the practitioner’s personal development of virtue in terms of selfless, loving attention as the precondition for a realistic interpretation of the client’s situation.https://tidsskrift.dk/qual/article/view/124455mental sufferinginterpretationethicsselfless loveiris murdoch |
| spellingShingle | Anne Eggert Stevns A Virtue Ethical Approach to Interpretation of the Suffering Other Qualitative Studies mental suffering interpretation ethics selfless love iris murdoch |
| title | A Virtue Ethical Approach to Interpretation of the Suffering Other |
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| title_short | A Virtue Ethical Approach to Interpretation of the Suffering Other |
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