The question of what makes a life livable is linked with the question, for an inhabitable world. This last was not Scheler’s but it follows from world that he describes, claims exhibited through tragic. When object immersed in sorrow, how possible to inhabit such world? What about persistence uninhabitable sorrow? answer lies less individual conduct or practice than forms solidarity emerge, acr...

Background: Quality of life is one of the pivotal notions of the World Health Organization’s perspective. Regarding the complications of Phenylketonuria (PKU) disease in children, it seems that this disease affects the quality of life of these mothers. Objectives: Investigating the quality of life of mothers with PKU children and to compare it with that of mothers of normal children. Material...

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This paper aims at clarifying the relationship between life-world and information technology. The concept of a life-world, originally found in phenomenology, has been used as a central idea in the theories of Jürgen Habermas. The first part of the paper will give an outline of Habermas' theory of communicative action and what role the idea of a life-world plays therein. It will be shown that th...