Project Details
Projekt
Central and Integrative Project (CIP): Biographical and Generative (Dis-)Continuity and their Relevance for a Good Life
Applicants
Dr. Sonja Deppe; Professor Dr. Mark Schweda
Subject Area
Practical Philosophy
Term
since 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 424883170
The central and integrative project (CIP) aims to bring together the knowledge gained in FOR 5022 to create an overarching picture of the temporal structures of a good life in the context of medicine. The focus is on clarifying the role of continuity and discontinuity for a good life, which are shown in the work of the research group as central aspects of human temporality. In the first funding period, the research group investigated the temporality of a good life under the conditions of a changing medical horizon with regard to the biographical temporality of the individual. In all considered fields of medical practice, the structures of continuity and discontinuity have come into focus as central figures of human temporality that need to be examined more closely. In the second funding period, the group's research questions will expand from the individual life course to trans-individual continuity structures: By focusing on generativity, we now ask to what extent it is relevant for a good life to orient oneself beyond one's own lifetime, for example with regard to one's own descendants or to other forms of intergenerational transmission. According to the CIP's research thesis, whether time structures are experienced as conducive to a good life depends crucially on how the relationship between permanent structures on the one hand and disruptions on the other can be designed – both in terms of intra-biographical temporality and in terms of generative orientation. The CIP examines and deepens this research thesis based on the medically relevant situations and narratives that the work of the subprojects in the fields of chronic heart disease, reproduction and aging has identified. In this way, the CIP provides a twofold integration: Firstly, the perspectives of the two funding periods are brought together by confronting intra-biographical and generative (dis-)continuity structures. Secondly, the study combines the perspectives of the respective fields of medical practice with the aim of working out the relevance of (dis-)continuity for a good life as a basic orientation for healthcare as a whole.
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