A Student Visits a Privately Funded House Where Hospice Care

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Essay

A student visits a privately funded house where hospice care is provided.He learns that, in addition to the nurse on duty, a staff of volunteers comes in around the clock.When the student asks the volunteer, "Isn't this depressing-how can you do this?," what do you think the volunteer might say in response? What are two benefits of hospice?

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Definitions:

Kant

A German philosopher of the 18th century, Immanual Kant is regarded as a central figure of modern philosophy who argued that reason is the source of morality and that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment.

Cezanne

Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations for the transition from 19th-century conceptions of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.

Aesthetics

The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty, and taste.

A Priori Structures

Fundamental concepts or frameworks that are understood or known before any experience or empirical evidence is involved.