Loading [MathJax]/jax/output/HTML-CSS/fonts/TeX/fontdata.js

Journal List > Perspect Nurs Sci > v.11(2) > 1060399

TOOLS
Kim and Choi: Looking into the Nursing from the Viewpoint of Heidegger: Reflections on the Existence of Being
Original Article

Perspectives in Nursing Science 2014;11(2):94-100.

Published online: 21 October 2014

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16952/pns.2014.11.2.94

Looking into the Nursing from the Viewpoint of Heidegger: Reflections on the Existence of Being

Su Mi Kim1, Hee Seung Choi2

1Graduate Student, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

2Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

Corresponding author: Kim, Su Mi College of Nursing, Seoul National University, 103 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea. Tel: +82-10-5498-1906, Fax: +82-2-765-4103, E-mail: kimsny@daum.net

Received 6 August 20146 September 2014       Accepted 17 September 2014

Copyright © 2014 The Research Institute of Nursing Science, Seoul National University

This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

Purpose

This article is aimed at broadening the perspectives of nursing by applying Heidegger's philosophical reasoning and views to nursing beliefs.

Methods

Heidegger's main concepts on a human's way of being were the source for examining the encounter between care-receiver and caregiver in nursing. In addition, the paper illustrates the attitudes that nurses must present to their care-receiver in existential nursing.

Results

As nurses and care-receivers experience existential crises due to anxiety about death and fear over uncontrollable situations, they both raise questions about the significance of their existences. By putting their deep reflections on these questions into nursing practice, nurses can exist as "Mitdasein" and be open to a number of possibilities in nursing.

Conclusion

Nurses must be open to a number of possibilities in nursing by embracing various experiences of life and individuality without criticism, and pursuing the existing lives of their counterparts as well as their owns. They are able to take this attitude by raising fundamental questions about life and the existence of human beings through ceaseless reflections on their experiences, then implementing the result of these reflections in their lives and nursing practices.

Go to : Goto

Keywords: Heidegger, Dasein, Mitdasein, Existence, Nursing

REFERENCES

1. Park SU. Hussel & Heidegger: Phenomenology, get over the crisis of the philosophy. 2nd ed.Paju: Kimyoungsa;2007.
2. Park YJ. A study of the determination of existence in Heidegger. Heidegger Studien. 2005; 12:57–78.
3. Cho HK. Dasein's existence and transcendence in the viewpoint of M. Heidegger. Heidegger Studien. 2012; 28:239–60.
4. Heidegger M. Being and Time. Trans. Lee KS. Paju: Sallim;2006.
5. Kang HS. About the other as Dasein in Heidegger. J Korean Philosophical Soc. 2009; 86:147–70.
6. Park CK. A point of contact of philosophy and life. J Soc Philosophical Stud. 2003; 16(1):262–78.
7. Heidegger M. The basic problems of phenomenology. Trans. Lee KS. Seoul: Moonyei;1994.
8. Park CK. A critical contemplation on the angst realized in the early Heidegger's philosophy. Catholic theology and Thought. 2008; 62:143–77.
9. Cho HK. Human being, possibility, and time. Philosophy and Culture. 2006; 12:193–216.
10. Heidegger M. The fundamental concepts of metaphysics. Trans. Lee KS. Seoul: Moonye;2001.
11. Son YS. Analysis of existence and existence analysis. Journal of the Daedong Philosophical Association. 2006; 36:107–24.
12. Roh SS. Dasein analysis and philosophical counseling for a tragic life. Sogang Journal of Philosophy. 2011; 26:59–92.
13. Kang HS. Phenomenological thought of being regarding to the care of Heidegger. Research in Philosophy and Phenomenology. 2001; 18:142–75.
Go to : Goto
TOOLS
Similar articles