Between Care and Justice

The Passions as Social Resource

Elena Pulcini, Silvia Benso, Antonio Calcagno, Silvia Benso, Antonio Calcagno

• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781438497877, 9781438497860
• eBook ISBN: 9781438497884
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

Proposes a form of moral education that joins care and justice to nurture and develop the desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political economic, and environmental levels.

Elena Pulcini (1950–2021), an internationally renowned philosopher of care, was at the forefront of thinking and creating a new ethical framework to respond efficaciously to problems that affect individuals at a global level. This translation of Pulcini's last work addresses perhaps the two fundamental questions for our times-namely, "Why care for others when we are not bound by personal relationships?" and "Why commit to justice even when it does not personally affect us?" By focusing on passions such as indignation, fear, compassion, resentment, and love, Pulcini offers an alternative ethical perspective in which justice and care intertwine to supplement and balance each other. Together, care and justice are proven capable of addressing the challenge of the "other," distant in space (the outsider, the marginalized, and the migrant) and time (future generations). In the end, Pulcini proposes a form of moral education that nurtures and develops desirable moral sentiments for a more just world at the interpersonal, social, political, economic, and environmental levels, thereby providing an alternative social, global model to current individual-focused, rights-based, purely rationalist ethical systems.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Translators’ Acknowledgments
• Author’s Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. Beyond Homo Oeconomicus: Empathy and Moral Sentiments
• 2. Care versus Justice or Care and Justice?
• 3. The Passions of Justice: Not Only Compassion
• 4. The Passions of Care: For Good Care
• 5. Global Perspectives: Care and Justice Confronting the Challenge of the Spatially Distant Other
• 6. Global Perspectives: Care and Justice Confronting the Challenge of the Temporally Distant Other
• 7. For an Emotive Subject: Taking Care of the Passions
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author
• Back Cover