An existential-phenomenological approach to consciousness
Langle, A.
Zhurnal Voprosy Neirokhirurgii Imeni N. N. Burdenko 78(1): 77-82; discussion 82
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8817 PMID: 24761600 Document Number: 678124
The human beings are characterized as subjects. Their essence is understood as Person. A treatment which does not consider the subjective and the Person would not correspond their essence. For a feeling and autonomous being, consciousness plays a role but cannot fully correspond the being a person. This has a therapeutic impact on the treatment of unconscious patients and gives the treatment a specific access. Some instructions for the therapeutic application of the phenomenological-existential concept and the phenomenological attitude towards unconscious or brain traumatized patients are given. The role of consciousness for being human is briefly reflected from an existential perspective.