Entre a ética e a tecnologia: um diálogo com Emmanuel Levinas

• Ano de defesa: 2008
• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Paulo Ricardo Cerveira
• Orientador(a): Souza, Ricardo Timm de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: FILOSOFIA; LEVINAS, EMMANUEL - CRÍTICA E INTERPRETAÇÃO; RELAÇÕES MÉDICO-PACIENTE; TECNOLOGIA - ÉTICA
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3408

The present study aims at finding out the potential contribution of Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of alterity in the qualification of the doctor-patient relationship. Levinas proposes an ethic based on the no denial of alterity, where the Other, which is introduced in a significant way, provokes a shaking in the structure of the Self. This questioning of the Self demands an answer that should be provided, giving no space to the possibility of escaping the responsibility of answering the Other’s command. When the Me is called, the instauration of justice is started, that means, there is a field for the ethic relationship. This relationship begins in the dialogue started in the introduction of the Other, through the unveiling of the face. The importance of ethics as a fundament is emphasized in the criticism to the idea that technology keeps the doctor away from the patient and in the denounce that the individual has never been the main focus of modern medicine. Literature is also suggested as an instrument to help breaking the Totality of medical knowledge, as well as the responsible use of technology as a way of building up justice.