De la hierofanía en la obra de Florence Nightingale.Notas sobre enfermería. Qué es y qué no es

Abstract

The man as a rational being and who knows that the field of reason is broader than the merely scientific field will ask himselfand express his philosophical or religious convictions on the ultimate principles on which the order that studies science rests (God as the first cause) or on the motivations that lead us to act (God as the highest good). These philosophical-religious opinions must be critically analyzed and discussed in a philosophical theological,not scientific, sphere. Science, respecting his method,must be developed without referring to extra-methodological elements. Florence Nightingale appealing to God, in the text under study, to refer to what should be explained by scientifically explorable natural causes, would incur a fundamentalist attitude, which would be an epistemic obstacle for the development of science. The inadequate mixture of religion and science would suppose an epistemic obstacle to consider this work, a foundations tone of modern nursing or as a foundational text to explain the development of current professional nursing or nursing knowledge...