J Korean Acad Nurs.  2002 Jun;32(3):364-372.

Aesthetical-ethical Paradigm of Care Ethics in Nursing

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  • 1Department of Nursing, Chosun University, Korea.

Abstract

PURPOSE
The purposes of this study was to find aesthetical-ethical paradigm of care ethics by understanding the unique moral character of care as an art and to suggest the optimal direction of nursing ethics. METHOD: This study used meaning-heuristic and -interpretive methods of hermeneutics based on philosophical aesthetic theory; Baumgarten's aesthetics, Schiller's theory of aesthetical education and Kant's theory of aesthetical judgement. RESULT: The concept of care implied aesthetical and ethical character; caring as an art was related to moral feeling based on human dignity und emotional communication in interpersonal-relationship. Caring as an art was interpreted as a moral ideal for the promotion of the humanity und the interaction in personal-relationship according to nursing theories. Philosophical aesthetics could provide the theoretical base for the interpretation of caring as an art. The proper paradigm of care ethics in nursing could be found in character-trait ethics and communication ethics according to the philosophical aesthetics.
CONCLUSION
This study could show aesthetical-ethical paradigm of care ethics in nursing by the heuristic interpretation of caring as an art according to the philosophical aesthetics.

Keyword

Care ethics; Nursing ethics; Aesthetics

MeSH Terms

Education
Esthetics
Ethics*
Ethics, Nursing
Humans
Nursing Theory
Nursing*
Personhood
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