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Nuevo post en EäBlogMedicine as an Absurdist Quest in Albert Camus’ The PlaguePor Robert J. Bonk, Ph.D. [1] "When we he  ar the word “absurd”, we typically think of something irrational or impossible, something fully out of kilter with our own experiences and expectations. So to consider the field of medicine as “absurd” immediately strikes us as strange. What we need to remember, though, is that this word has a special denotation in philosophy—separate from connotations with which it is more often associated.Absurdism, in philosophical terms, refers to a way of viewing our world as incomprehensible. It differs from the similar philosophy of existentialism. In the latter, the world has no meaning before or after our lives. That is, life has meaning (at least to us) only during our own lives; no divine being, inescapable fate, or heroic path exists. Thus, an existentialist like Jean-Paul Sartre sees life strictly in terms of his current existence—hence, existentialism...." -- Ver nota completa en EäBlog
[1] Robert J. Bonk, Ph.D • Widener University
Artículo original: Bonk, R. (2010). Medicine as an Absurdist Quest in Albert Camus’ The Plague. Eä – Revista de Humanidades Médicas & Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Tecnología, vol. 2 (1). Texto completo disponible online en http://www.ea-journal.com/art2.1/Medicine-as-an-Absurdist-Quest.pdf
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