THE PHENOMENON OF HEALTH FROM THE POSITION OF ENACTIVISM: EXISTENTIAL AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Epistemological Studies in Philosophy Social and Political Sciences July 29, 2025 M. Nesprava 1 citation
Health is not merely the absence of disease but a state of active involvement in the world, according to an enactivist and phenomenological perspective. The biomedical model is insufficient, and holistic or biopsychosocial approaches still fail to integrate biology, psychology, and culture. Drawing on Gadamer, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ratcliffe, the author argues that health reveals itself as a condition enabling immersion in a shared world, not as a specific introspective feeling. Health is the potential for world discovery embedded in existential feelings, which arise through the living body and shape what matters to us.