Theories of the meaning of life are divided into two categories: nihilistic and anti-nihilistic. The latter is divided, in turn, into the view that life is meaningful and the view that life can be made meaningful. In this paper, we deploy a descriptive-analytic method to discuss Jean-Paul Sartre’s view of nihilism. In his view, God does not exist, the human being is born and dies without a reas...

According to modern religious studies, religions are rooted in certain metaphorical representations, so they are metaphorical in nature. This article aims to show, first, how conceptual metaphors employ image schemas to make our language meaningful, and then to assert that image-schematic structure of religious expressions, by which religious metaphors conceptualize abstract meanings, is the ba...

El Cuidado Humanizado de Enfermería, como expresión del arte cuidar, se caracteriza por entablar una relación eminentemente ética y confianza en su interacción con el Otro. Medir este constructo ha sido objetivo instrumento Percepción Comportamientos Enfermería (PCHE). presente artículo muestra proceso construcción validación instrumento, correlación teórica los planteamientos filosóficos cuida...

Piaget's body of work had two major theoretical thrusts: constructivism and stage theory. Both constructivism and stage theories articulate modern work on conceptual development, albeit transformed by developments in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. A case study of conceptual change in childhood within a framework theory of intuitive biology illustrates these points.

Objetivo: Analisar a produção científica acerca da Teoria do Cuidado Humano de Jean Watson em teses e dissertações, no âmbito nacional. Métodos: Estudo bibliométrico constituído 41 dissertações publicadas banco CEPEn, catálogo disponível portal CAPES, Portal Domínio Público, na TESESENF BDTD, recorte temporal 2000 2016. Resultados: Os anos 2016 foram os maior sobre o tema. A região sul obteve u...

At St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey, implementation of the Relationship-Based Care (RBC) model of care delivery and enculturation of the philosophy of care embodied in Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring (Watson, 2007) improved patient outcomes and supported quality nursing care across the continuum of care in our organization. The ability of staff nurses to create ...

H. Liu,1 D. Bedau,1 J. Z. Sun,2 S. Mangin,3 E. E. Fullerton,4 J. A. Katine,5 and A. D. Kent1 1Department of Physics, New York University, New York, New York 10003, USA 2IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, New York, 10598 USA 3Institute Jean Lamour, UMR CNRS 7198, Nancy Université, Vandoeuvre, France 4CMRR, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California...