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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2022. Vol 42

The Phenomenon of Medical Anthropology and Its Philosophical and Theological Foundations

Author(s)
D. S. Damte
Abstract
This paper examines the philosophical and theological foundations of the medical anthropology of Victor von Weizsäcker (1886–1957). Drawing on sources, many of which are being introduced into scholarship for the first time, and research literature, we show the relationship between Weizsäcker's ideas of man as a psychosomatic unity, illness as a life crisis, and health, on which the German thinker's theory is based, and the corresponding philosophical and theological conceptions. We reveal the significance of Weizsäcker's ideas in the context of the interaction of modern human sciences, philosophy and theology.
About the Authors
Damte David Solomonovich, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Editor of the Publishing house “Delo”, Russian Academy National Economy and Public Administration, 82, Vernadskiy av., Moscow, 119571, Russian Federation, Associate Professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies Russian Orthodox University of Saint John the Divine, 12, bldg 3, Novaya Ploschad, Moscow, 109012, Russian Federation, e-mail: damte_d@mail.ru
For citation
Damte D. S. The Phenomenon of Medical Anthropology and Its Philosophical and Theological Foundations. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2022, vol. 42, pp. 135-141. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2022.42.135 (in Russian)
Keywords
Viktor von Weizsäcker, medical anthropology, philosophical anthropology, man, disease, health.
UDC
215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2022.42.135
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