The desire to end illness as an anthropological symptom

• Journal: Éthique, politique, religions
  2021 – 2, n° 19. varia
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• Abstract: Fighting illness could be a nonsense, if we consider human condition as a disease in itself. This paper shows that, in Montaigne’s skeptical anthropology, firstly health can be considered as an adjustment of disease, and therapeutic obstinacy as a pathological refusal of self; secondly that the healthy acceptance of oneself as sick differs from Stanley Cavell’s interpretation of skepticism, based on Descartes’ work, as pathological obstinacy to cure humans of their contingency.
• Number of pages: 179
• ISBN: 978-2-406-12623-2
• ISSN: 2271-7234
• DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-12623-2.p.0023
• Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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• Keyword: Skepticism, Anomaly, Anthropology, ordinary, Stanley Cavell, Waldo Emerson

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