Autonomy and vulnerability. Ethics of care as critical perspective

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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2021.64.03

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Autonomy, Vulnerability, Scottish Enlightenment, Care Ethics, Neoliberalism

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This article aims at two objectives, the first is to prove the insufficiency of the Kantian ethics matrix to give an account of vulnerability and precarity that are part of human existence. We will show how the “losing” side of ethical theories of modernity, offer a richer frame to asses human interdependency. Our second objective is to pose the hypothesis about a relation between those discourses of freedom as autonomy and the negation of human vulnerability and hence of the relegation or subalterization of the ethical arguments based on care.

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2021-05-19

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Darat, N. . (2021). Autonomy and vulnerability. Ethics of care as critical perspective. Isegoría, (64), e03. https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2021.64.03

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