Boss’ and Binswanger's health anthropologies and existential philosophies

Abstract

This article highlights central background themes in existential phenomenology,

Seeing What We Know, Knowing What We See: Challenging the Limits of Visual Acuity

“…For Heidegger, possibility precedes all actuality, while Aristotle argued that actuality comes before potentiality (Hanley 1998;McNeill 1999). Similarly, existential psychologist Binswanger thought of the world as being ''endowed'' with meaning by individuals (i.e., what is in the mind comes before actuality), while Boss insisted that meaning in the world ''discloses'' itself to us (i.e., actuality builds the mind) (Olesen 2006). When examining our limits, researchers have mostly focused on Aristotelian approaches, examining empirically what our limits are.…”