Philosophy, chronicity and quality of life

Abstract

Philosophical reflection is needed about the chronicity of the current problems of health and wellness concept. The unit of analysis is philosophical recovers everything recovers the global world while the historical horizon of western thought. Life and happiness in the way they acquire particular morphology welfare and everyday that brings both members of a community or a group within a flexible but limited field of life choices. Human realities as those present in a chronic disease requiring defined in relation to another reality as the “sameness” of anything is only possible with an “otherness”. The concept of quality of life is so controversial, so it is considered an object of philosophical debate. Some authors philosophers argue that quality of life should be assessed in terms of utility, happiness or satisfaction of desires or preferences. In contemporary society, the quality of life concepts, wellness and chronic demand reflection of the nurse as a search philosophical required meeting with herself and one that today is structured within the social imaginary utopian timeless and not necessarily to privacy necessary care.