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Social Epistemology
A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy
Volume 25, 2011 - Issue 3: Rhetorics of Expertise
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The Expertise of Human Beings and Depression

Pages 263-274 | Published online: 28 Jul 2011
 

Abstract

Depression is a debilitating condition, but it can also be an awakening: one that calls attention to what is termed dimensions of expertise that come with the spatial and temporal structure of human beings and that are necessary for offering some counter to the debilitating force of the condition. Expertise has a significant ontological status: it is directly associated with who we are as creatures who can hear and respond to the call of conscience, desire acknowledgment and have an obligation to share this life-giving gift with others, and whose very being is characterized by a perfectionist impulse to better its standing in the world. A story concerned with medical expertise is offered to illustrate in concrete terms these specific matters.

Notes

1. [1] This essay is dedicated to my mother, Mrs Claire Rosenthal Hyde.

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