Maria Soto

Contemporary healthcare systems face a structural crisis driven by biomedical reductionism, institutional biopower, and corporate rationalization. In this context, professional enculturation in nursing has historically functioned to reproduce subalternity and institutional docility through a clinical hidden curriculum that privileges delegated biomedical routines over autonomous care. Drawing upon a transnational genealogy across four foundational paradigms (biomedical positivist, interpretive‐humanistic, disciplinary, and critical‐sociopolitical), this article deconstructs how organizational architectures constrain Care Science. Crucially, rather than framing role transition shock and moral distress as individual psychological fragility or resilience deficits, we conceptualize them as acts of legitimate epistemological resistance. To overcome this institutional alienation, we propose the Emancipatory Praxis and Care Sovereignty Paradigm (EPCSP). Grounded in critical pedagogy, feminist ethics, and systemic humanism, the EPCSP redefines nursing education and clinical practice. It establishes the ontological parity of care in relation to medical cure, equips practitioners with critical agency to dismantle institutional biopower, and provides the operational framework required to address complex chronicity, mitigate clinical iatrogenesis, and secure the disciplinary sovereignty of Care Science.

In this article, we examine the ontological, hermeneutic, and temporal dimensions of nursing care to explore how contemporary nursing practice and professional identity may be understood beyond exclusively technical accounts of care. Drawing primarily on Heidegger's ontology and Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, and engaging with concepts such as liminality, temporality, vulnerability, and self‐care, the article develops a theoretical framework for understanding nursing as a relational, interpretive, and ethically situated practice. Particular attention is given to the role of understanding, dialogue, and the fusion of horizons (Horizontverschmelzung) in clinical encounters, highlighting how caring involves not only technical competence and scientific knowledge but also the interpretation of patients’ lived experiences within specific historical, cultural, and biographical contexts. From this perspective, care emerges as a practice through which professional knowledge, ethical responsibility, and responsiveness to vulnerability are continuously negotiated and enacted. We argue that ontological and hermeneutic approaches enrich contemporary understandings of nursing by illuminating dimensions of care that cannot be fully captured through procedural, managerial, or productivity‐oriented frameworks alone. This perspective contributes to ongoing debates concerning nursing identity, autonomy, clinical decision‐making, and the humanization of healthcare, while reaffirming the importance of integrating scientific rigor, technical excellence, and interpretive understanding within professional nursing practice.

Dans un contexte de compréhension de l’être humain en tant que créé à l’image et à la ressemblance divine, Nicolas de Cues a considéré que la vision et l’union avec l’Absolu conduit, d’une part, au bonheur, et implique aussi, d’autre part, l’expression de la plus grande liberté que puisse atteindre l’humain, c’est-à-dire la pleine possession de soi. Cette conviction se présente dans son œuvre, le De visione Dei, dans une ambiance mesurée par l’attitude de la personne en prière, qui s’adresse à Dieu dans la recherche de soi-même, et dans l’aspiration à accéder à ce qui est sciemment inaccessible. À la fin de la Renaissance, Giordano Bruno est l’auteur qui marquera indiscutablement le tournant anthropologique dans le sens d’une subjectivité ne prétendant plus à une union avec l’Absolu, mais qui se retourne vers elle-même. Cela se produit dans un système dans lequel l’être humain et le monde s’auto-impliquent dans une totalité dynamique qui ne laisse pas de place à un Absolu transcendant.

This article focuses on the fourth question of Thomas Aquinas’ De veritate in order to analyse the ontological status of things in the divine Logos, or Word. To do this, and following Aquinas’ text, it first examines the analogy between the mental word and the divine word, explaining the meaning of exemplarity. It then traces the cognitive process which leads to intellectual conception. Finally, in a comprehensive manner, it examines issues surrounding the way of knowing a thing according to similitude and exemplarity in the divine Logos.

El artículo parte de la distinción poliana entre ser creado y ser increado y expone, a partir de ahí, la distinción Dios-criatura que permite el estudio metafisico de la finitud. En un segundo momento se aproxima a la interpretación que L. Polo ha dado de M. Eckhart en lo que se refiere al estatuto ontológico de lo finito; para este asunto, se acerca a la comprensión de la criatura en el Logos creador, cuestión que es tratada, con sus diferencias respectivas, en Tomás de Aquino, Eckhart y Leonardo Polo.