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This chapter outlines the importance of reasons-giving in, and for, Ethical Counselling. By reason-giving, we refer to that particular dialogical process whereby an agent comes to identify, articulate and appraise the various moral reasons structuring an ethical dilemma. In particular, within this chapter, we describe (i) the role of emotions with respect to reason-giving; (ii) why we should rely on reason-giving; (iii) how reason-giving enables to make explicit patients’ Personal Philosophy; and (iv) why reason-giving is always an open-ended process.
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According to the Stoics, the need to control one’s passions as to allow some space for critical thinking was not limited to negative emotions (e.g., fear, sadness), but it extended to all cases in which an emotional responses was so strong as to impede deliberate reasoning. Hence fear was a dangerous “passion”, but so too were other strong emotional disturbances associated with “positive emotions” like love or friendship.
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With respect to the methodology presented in chapter “Ethical Counselling for Patients”, this further analysis may take place both in the ethical assessment phase and in the ethical comparative phase, where the patient is lead to elaborate her value-ranking.
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For example, one may states that “natural medicine” is for her “the only viable option” for healing, and yet admit that if a young child needs surgery, then one has good reasons to proceed, even if this requires the administration of antibiotics.
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Annoni, M. (2016). Reasons and Emotions. In: Boniolo, G., Sanchini, V. (eds) Ethical Counselling and Medical Decision-Making in the Era of Personalised Medicine. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27690-8_5
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