In healthcare practice, care providers are confronted with tragic situations, in which they are expected to make choices and decisions that can have far-reaching consequences. This article investigates the role of moral case deliberation (MCD) in dealing with tragic situations. It focuses on experiences of care givers involved in the treatment of a pregnant woman with a brain tumour, and their ...

In 1980, the liberal political philosopher John Rawls delivered a remarkable series of lectures at Columbia University. The Dewey Lectures, subsequently published in the Journal of Philosophy as “Kantian Constructivism in Moral Theory,” detailed a metaethical procedure–or method for formulating principles–that informed his earlier A Theory of Justice (1971) and that would make possible its sequ...

Abstract The text is part of a broader study on the perception tragic perspective compared with our contemporary sense. In addition to have particular narratological relevance, persistence level in second cantica Comedy produces decisive effect Dante’s discourse, and proposes different meaning Allegory. One results this investigation concerns dramatic language, which determined where allegorica...