Care and contested coherence
Coordinator: Prof. dr. F.J.H. Vosman
Aim and general description
The research done within the frame of Care and Contested Coherence, aiming at internal theoretical consistency, will further elucidate the key concepts of both 'care' and 'coherence', and explain how these concepts are interrelated. One central idea is that care as a practice establishes social coherence between humans and that this type of coherence should be normatively appreciated and is normatively preferable compared to a market inspired model. Another central idea, in response to today's multicultural society, is that moral coherence, balanced by cultural diversity, is at stake too. Subservient to this, specific concepts (like recognition from an intercultural perspective, and the concept of transparticularity) are elucidated and problems clarified, e.g. how to gain insights via empirical research and theological analysis from professional experience into what has proven to be morally important: how can one come to such insights in a systematic way, in order to bring the results to bearing in the main line of concern.