Second-person Experience, Testimony, and Healing: An Investigation with Aquinas into the Problem of Human Suffering KU Leuven
De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, Research Unit of Systematic Theology and the Study of Religions
This dissertation focuses on one of the healing methods of human suffering: second-person relationship between survivors and sufferers (S-S relation). I argue that (1) this relationship provides an emotional-convincing healing of which medications or psychological treatments lack; (2) this relationship can be successfully interpreted in accordance to Aquinas’s conception of testimony; and (3) this complex relationship is effective in ...