Asclepius against the Crucified: Medical Nihilism and Incarnational Life in Death

In The Anticipatory Corpse, Jeffrey Bishop argues that "death is medicine's transcendental." In this paper, I further explore this claim to show that modern medicine is nihilistic through (1) Heidegger's critique of medical technology as Nietzschean ontotheology and (2) Heidegger...

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Auteur principal: Kornu, Kimbell (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Oxford University Press [2017]
Dans: Christian bioethics
Année: 2017, Volume: 23, Numéro: 1, Pages: 38-59
Classifications IxTheo:NBC Dieu
NBD Création
NCH Éthique médicale
VA Philosophie
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Résumé:In The Anticipatory Corpse, Jeffrey Bishop argues that "death is medicine's transcendental." In this paper, I further explore this claim to show that modern medicine is nihilistic through (1) Heidegger's critique of medical technology as Nietzschean ontotheology and (2) Heidegger's ontology of Death and the Nothing. As a response to this double nihilism of medicine, I suggest that Maximus the Confessor's metaphysics of the Incarnation reveals that creation from nothing gives way to fullness of life and that life is revealed in the death of Christ.
ISSN:1744-4195
Contient:Enthalten in: Christian bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/cb/cbw020