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Revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi
Conradie, Pieter. 2025. Revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132109
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132109 Revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi Conradie, Pieter Smit, J. P. Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Philosophy. Applied Ethics. Death -- Moral and ethical aspects Terminal care -- Religious aspects Medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects Ubuntu (Philosophy) -- Social aspects UCTD Conradie, Pieter. 2025. Revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi. Unpublished masters thesis. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132109 Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: With the expansion of modern medicine, an ever-increasing challenge is being levelled against us as mortal human beings. This is the challenge of dying well, given the capacity of medicine to extend our lives almost indefinitely. In modernity, dying has become a drawn out, isolated, silent and often miserable affair. Alternatives to such a silent suffering are explored at the hand of a revitalised ars moriendi (art of dying) in combination with a processual understanding of human existence and the world. In these alternative modes of living with mortality, the medical model is not be abandoned. Healthcare plays an important part in recognising and addressing the needs of dying patients. It can identify early indications of the dying process, enabling the patient to achieve a variety of personal and cultural virtues. These virtues may include enacting a voluntary death, clear communication about the dying experience, accepting finitude and dying in community. Thus, the medical model makes way for achieving social and spiritual goals towards the end of life. These goals are further supported by a fundamental analysis of who we are as persons. As social and temporal entities, we become who we are in virtue of change and death. Dying defines the limits of our lives and it is also a pillar of life, allowing us to exist as the kind of entities we are, given a constantly shifting environment. Drawing on process biology, Heideggerian philosophy of existence and Ubuntu philosophy, it is argued that death is an inextricable part of being, allowing us to live both as individuals and communities. All three perspectives, Dasein, processual organisms and Personhood, sees the entanglement of the self with the social. In choosing to live an authentic life according to both these modes, we die in a way that our lives are affirmed and our continuity is ensured. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar. Masters 2025-05-23T14:09:28Z 2025-05-23T14:09:28Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132109 Stellenbosch University 83 pages application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Death -- Moral and ethical aspects Terminal care -- Religious aspects Medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects Ubuntu (Philosophy) -- Social aspects UCTD Conradie, Pieter Revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi |
| title | Revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi |
| title_full | Revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi |
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| title_short | Revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi |
| title_sort | revitalising death from processual persons to a modern ars moriendi |
| topic | Death -- Moral and ethical aspects Terminal care -- Religious aspects Medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects Right to die -- Moral and ethical aspects Ubuntu (Philosophy) -- Social aspects UCTD |
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