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The concept of health as Fernando Savater

Professor José Lazaro wrote an interesting article in the magazine JANO on the concept of health discerning philosopher Fernando Savater. Talk

single thought and concept of health to the concept only private and personal. Talk about the "health status" and the imposition of health or disposal by decree of the unhealthy. The importance of the autonomy of each to live out their health and disease .... A stimulating text.

HEALTH Savate.


Contrary to popular belief, the concept of health depends more on individual freedom of physiology. This is at least the idea that emerges from the writings of Fernando Savater, much more interesting in this regard than the much discussed of the arguments in favor of legalizing drugs (Rose, 2011), which, moreover, caused uproar when Savater began to defend the mid-eighties, but now from Nobel laureates to share the right-wing economists and former government .
Savater is a thinker who has very little to do with philosophical models such as Plato, Kant or Zubiri: his is rather a synthesis of the features most committed and essays by authors such as Voltaire, Russell and Ortega. The concept of health that he presents is in written much less widespread than those involved in drugs or procreation, but very suggestive for which you are interested by major theoretical dilemmas of medicine. Savater
claims that "the ideas of health or disease are flawed by one of those nefarious beliefs of our time for which there is only one model of health. Anyone can set from outside who is healthy and who is sick. To me that seems very questionable. Health is not one size fits all, not even a prêt-à-porter: health is a measure, a figment of everyone. If there is a personal invention, if one can not do anything to your health, then you really can not say that is healthy. Hence the expression so common, public health, I produce most of the annoyances (Savater, 1991).
This thesis, in some cases, it is easy to share: the lameness can be a simple default for a writer, but is a serious disease for an athlete. The hyperosmia can cause great discomfort in daily life, but is a great advantage for a winemaker. What you have decided to do with his life (no matter if we call it a vocation, such as classic, design, and the existentialists, or desire, as the postmodernists) determines that a certain physical characteristic or is a serious mental disorder, a neutral element or benefit.
Savater But the argument goes much further and that's when it's encouraging as a noble challenge (in addition to reflecting the core of everything perfectly his ethical ideas). Says:
"Life seen as running faces life as an experiment. They are two different approaches. If life is functioning anyone can tell who works and who is not. Performance is measured from the outside without his advice or ask an opinion about what they intended to have cer. This is what is usually done while the experiment can only be measured from within. The experiment is not measured by performance but by other scales are difficult to appraise as pleasure, pain, satisfaction, fear ... It can only weighed yourself. The facet of experiment that has life is basic, the unrepeatable and unique (...). The operation, however, is the exchange that takes life. Is determined from outside, is measured in horsepower, production, years of life, number of children, Social Security contributions ... "(Savater, 1991).

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