The Encounter between Wonder and Generosity

Caze, Marguerite La

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“…Theoretical literature emphasizing the importance of stunning amazement-astounding wonderment is literature discussing wonder as a primary emotion. La Caze (2002) suggested, “Wonder is surprise at the extraordinary” (p. 2). Descartes (1989) posited that wonder has great power to move us because of the surprise it involves.…”

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The Living Experience of Feeling Surprised

Bunkers

2016

Nurs Sci Q

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The purpose of this article is to report the finding of a Parse research method study on the universal living experience of feeling surprised. In dialogical engagement with the researcher, eight participants described the experience. The structure of the living experience of feeling surprised was found to be: Feeling surprised is stunning amazement arising with shifting fortunes, as delight amid despair surfaces with diverse involvements.

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The Living Experience of Feeling Surprised

Bunkers

2016

Nurs Sci Q

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“…Now I am here giving a freestanding characterisation of wonder as I experience it, but since many have written on the matter already I am bound to be selective with regard to either endorsing or disputing prior sources. Among these, some have found wondering to be, variously: an essential characteristic of man;[21] ‘a strong emotional experience containing elements of ideation and disposition to act;’[22] the acceptance of ‘in some small degree the play of the imagination;’[23] something that is generally good or excellent;[24] ‘an experience of the self’ that is not yet an attitude but that gropes towards one;[25] susceptible to capacity or ‘talent;’[26] disinterested, external and detaching us from our ordinary world;[27] ‘a crisis;’[28] ‘ineffable;’[29] an interruption that is embodied and physical;[30] purely passive;[31] a ‘hinge’ upon which turns the door to other worlds;[32] something full of ‘unpredictable surprise;’[33] an ‘eruption of the numinous in human life;’[34] something capable of ‘arous[ing] and inflict[ing] terror, worship and grief;’[35] the converse of generosity;[36] an acknowledgment of difference in others;[37] a state of mind signalling the limits of understanding;[38] openness or receptivity leading one beyond a preoccupation with the self ‘into a search for meaning beyond oneself;’[39] and the ‘keystone virtue in our time of reckless destruction, a source of decency and hope and restraint.’[40]…”

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Wonder and the clinical encounter

Evans

2012

Theor Med Bioeth

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Here are three writers not thinking particularly about medicine:Were there no given, wonder could never spring on us its unpredictable surprise, would never be able to sneak up and startle us into realizing that we do not know what lies right here in front of us. Jerome Miller [1] Wonder … always points to something beyond the accepted rules. Because of this, the feeling of being overwhelmed, or the experience of humbleness and even awe could accompany it. But wonder is also consistent with a certain uneasiness towards the given, an inkling that there is more to it than tradition admits, and this more can be investigated. Paul Martin Opdal [2] If this is the way the world is: extraordinary, surprising, beautiful, singular, mysterious and meaningful; then this is how I ought to act in that world: with respect and celebration, with care, and with full acceptance of the responsibilities that come with my role as a human being privileged to be a part of that community of living things. Wonder is the missing premise that can transform what-is into a moral conviction about how one ought to act in that world. Kathleen Dean Moore [3] These writers had in mind, variously, questions in philosophy of religion, in developmental and educational psychology, and ecology and environmental ethics; but I believe their common theme -wonder -is always latent within medicine and at times suffuses it. Indeed, there is a sense in which all medical treatment, whether or not it works, is wonder-ful in terms of its ambition and, for want of a better word, its metaphysical presumption.[4] For many, a major reason for entering the profession of medicine is the mystery of the body and its physiological interconnectedness. [Footnote 1 ] Yet for some reason wonder's role in clinical medicine is rarely spoken about.In this paper I want to propose the value, to doctors and others in routine clinical life, of an active, cultivated, openness to wonder and to the sense of wonder. Wonder is a notion that in recent decades has attracted periodic interest among philosophers and theologians, [5][6][7][8][9][10] historians of science [11][12][13] and educationalists [14] among others (including recently at least one significant funding body [footnote 2 ]) but so far as I know it has not been discussed in detail in relation to the practice of clinical medicine. An invitation to do so was issued in the form of an elegantly engaging short paper by sociologist Arthur W Frank, exhorting doctors and patients alike to 'recognize the wonder of the body rather than try to control it; ' [15] and for my own part I have previously suggested an active sense of a wonder as a personal resource to the professional clinician [16] and its cultivation as an educational good to be aimed at via the integration of humanities within the medical school curriculum. [17] However no-one has attempted any sustained analytic discussion of the clinical relevance of wonder, nor exploration of the ethical or aesthetic aspects of wonder in relation to medical 1 I owe this point to A...

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“…7 7 See La Caze 2002b for a more detailed argument for this view. Irigaray is aware of the danger of exoticizing others, which she notes in 1993 (97–98, 104). …”

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Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of the Other: Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Self-respect

Caze¹

2008

Hypatia

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Iris Marion Young argues we cannot understand others’ experiences by imagining ourselves in their place or in terms of symmetrical reciprocity (1997a). For Young, reciprocity expresses moral respect and asymmetry arises from people's greatly varying life histories and social positions. La Caze argues there are problems with Young's articulation of asymmetrical reciprocity in terms of wonder and the gift. By discussing friendship and political representation, she shows how taking self-respect into account complicates asymmetrical reciprocity.

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The Encounter between Wonder and Generosity

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