Affirmative dimensions of applied ethics. Appreciative therapies.
Autori:
Antonio SANDU, Oana Mariana CIUCHI
Editura:
Lumen
Cod: ISSN: 1583-3410 (print), ISSN: 1584-5397 (electronic)
Dimensiuni: pp. 53-62
How to cite this article:Sandu, A., Ciuchi, O.M. (2010). Affirmative dimensions of applied ethics. Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala, 30, 53-62. |
Abstract:a
Gilles Lipovetsky claims that the phrase “age of minimalism” is better suited
to the postmodern society than “the society of generalised permissiveness”. The
postmodern society is a post-moralist one, at the twilight of duty. Transmodern
(“hypermodern” in Lipovetsky’s reading) ethics establishes moral norms based
on liberal and pragmatic principles. The preferred focus is on the value of
positivism, of cooperation as a source of efficiency, of personal enrichment – be
it cultural, spiritual or moral – derived from the access to alterity. Tolerance as
an ethical value is legitimised by a utilitarian humanism. The fundamental change
proposed by Tel Franklin’s appreciative therapy consists of shifting attention from
illness as a state of disorder of the living system to that of implicit order, called
“perfect health”. We can view the counselling process as congruence between
solving the problems of the human ego and facilitating the functionality of the
social networks and systems the individuals is a part of. It is precisely at the level
of the functionality of social systems that we can identify the reference space of
the affirmative-appreciative counselling. The particularity of this approach is the
replacement of the focus on problems with the focus on the individual’s positive
experience, on the strategies for “managing one’s own existence” that the subject
has successfully applied.
Keywords:
Appreciative inquiry, appreciative counselling, appreciative therapy; counselling
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