Raphael Celis

• Professor
• Professor at University of Lausanne

The language of poetry calls for special attention, since its strangeness itself verifies a very different way to relate to real for the practices of language - in everyday life or in the scientific work. With the help of reference to Emptiness and to perspectives from Chinese tradition, Maldiney develops that philosophy peculiar to poetry from the...

Based on an individual case, we examine the experience of a young man battling with unresponsive chronic pain. Our objective was to focus on the complexity of the situation and to propose a therapeutic attitude where search for cure, often only partially attainable, implies integration within a more vast project, i.e. the development, in partnershi...

Résumé D’un point de vue phénoménologique, la dépression endémique en notre société moderne peut être vue comme une rupture d’évidence, une disharmonie de la « vie intentionnelle » de celui qui en souffre, se manifestant autant par une anhédonie, qu’une anhormie et une dysrythmie au sein de son existence. Ce point de vue peut s’éclairer avec celui...

Thiscontribution is aimed for proving that medical art, conceived by Hippocrate,requires, a precise description of the sick person′s constitution and of one′s relation with the environment, where the illness has set in. This doesn′t mean nowadays that the laws of natural sciences are surreptitiously neglected our depreciated, but that they have to...

Will medicine become an applied science with man as the object, sacrificing its capacity for innovating intuition? Faced with technical progress, medicine is becoming a private club of initiated members which has lost its capacity to create an ethic inspired by the internal norms of its own activity. It must however be recalled that the living bein...

Dans l’Europe entière, le destin du système de protection sociale associé à l’assurance-maladie est aujourd’hui l’objet de débats contradictoires, voire de violentes polémiques. Ce qui motive le plus souvent ces débats, si l’on fait ici abstraction de la critique généralisée de l’État-providence par l’idéologie néo-libérale dominante, c’est la néce...

In the works of Dostoyevsky, the omnipresent paradigm of childhood incarnates the perfect Christological virtue: redemptive compassion. In Nietzsche, this paradigm is just as central, but it acquires a fundamentally ambiguous meaning, because it sometimes designates the most authentic evangelistic attitude (the real teaching of Jesus) and other tim...

Although it pertains to the task of phenomenology to surpass the ontic understanding of the ego, it is nonetheless true that the definition of the means of access of this ego to the fundamental worldness (Weltlichkeit) cannot but produce a determined anthropological thought. In his first essays under Husserl's influence Fink showed clearly that the...

271 p. Domaine privilégié de la réflexion philosophique, la question du temps et de l'espace a été envisagée à son origine par la préséance de la dimension temporelle sur la spatialité. C'est à l'époque classique que l'espace soumet le temps à sa primauté, que l'aiôn perd son caractère de temps-de-vie de toute chose au profit de l'éternité, et que...