Restoring autonomy : symmetry and asymmetry in care relationships

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dc.contributor.authorLange, Frederick de, 1955-en_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-10T12:11:26Z
dc.date.available2012-09-10T12:11:26Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.descriptionCITATION: De Lange, F. 2011. Restoring autonomy : symmetry and asymmetry in care relationships. Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, 52(1):61-68, doi:10.5952/52-0-38.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://ngtt.journals.ac.zaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn this article the complexity of a professional care relationship as a whole of symmetrical and asymmetrical, formal and informal dimensions, is presented. Its ethical simplicity, however, is safeguarded as long as the telos of a care relationship is seen as the restoration of the autonomy of the care receiver. Autonomy is interpreted as the capability of persons to develop their uniqueness throughout their life course. The undeniable asymmetry of the care relationship is an essential, but temporary moment in its dynamics. The dynamics of a care relationship corresponds to the heart of the Christian ethos: in the Christian narrative, the asymmetry of humiliation precedes the exaltation, understood as the restoration of human dignity as ‘living upright’. The theological concept of exaltation can be interpreted as God’s ‘care for autonomy’ in a ethics of care.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://ngtt.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/38
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent8 pages
dc.identifier.citationDe Lange, F. 2011. Restoring autonomy : symmetry and asymmetry in care relationships. Nederduitse Gereformeerde Teologiese Tydskrif, 52(1):61-68, doi:10.5952/52-0-38.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn2226-2385 (online)
dc.identifier.issn0028-2006 (print)
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.5952/52-0-38en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/70400en_ZA
dc.publisherPieter de Waal Neethling Trusten_ZA
dc.rights.holderAuthor retains copyright
dc.subjectAutonomyen_ZA
dc.subjectCare relationshipsen_ZA
dc.titleRestoring autonomy : symmetry and asymmetry in care relationshipsen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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