Ethics of Care Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

This book offers a set of reflections on the ethics of care in full articulation with some of the most pressing issues of our time. Several themes are analyzed, such as medical care, self-care, justice, economics, politics, and technology. All of them, however, are permeated and united by a common philosophical purpose, namely: an ethics of care not only allows the conception of behavioral relationships and human values but also puts into play the theoretical foundations of ethics itself. It is in this sense that the ethics of care proposed in this volume can be considered metaethics. Since they present multidisciplinary contents and concepts, the chapters of this volume are relevant theoretical tools for researchers, professors, and students, as well as specialized caregivers, who want to deepen the new theoretical and practical implications of care in contemporary society.

First Section Care in Theory.- The relevance of Paul Ricoeurs and Emmanuel Levinass thoughts for an ethics of medical care.- Maternity The paradigm of care in the doctor patient relationship.- A decolonial ethics aesthetics of care.- Between care and justice A reinterpretation of the debate in the light of international constitutionalism.- Self care and care for others in moral virtues.- Dancing on the Edge of the Abyss.- The Soft Call of Memory On the Need to Care for Our Elders.- Second Section Care in Practice.- Care and the Market Can We Consume with a Concern for Others.- Carelessness and ignorance the epistemic vices of the privileged analyzed through their waste.- Public policy on child care in Mexico the case of child care centers to support working mothers.- Informal Care Public Care Policies versus The Privatization of Family Labour.- On caring acts and technological mediation processes.- Geoengineering as Techno care Ethical Issues in for the Anthropocene.

Joaquim Braga is a researcher and professor at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Coimbra. He is also a member of the R&D Unit Institute for Philosophical Studies. His graduation in Philosophy took place at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra. In 2010, at Humboldt University of Berlin, he finished his Ph.D. with a thesis based on the philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. Currently, his research activity covers the fields of Philosophy of Care, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Technology, plus Modern and Contemporary Philosophy, with a special interest in symbolic thought. His works include, among others, Die symbolische Prägnanz des Bildes. Zu einer Kritik des Bildbegriffs nach der Philosophie Ernst Cassirers; Rethinking Culture and Cultural Analysis; Símbolo e Cultura; Bernard de Mandeville’s Tropology of Paradoxes: Morals, Politics, Economics, and Therapy: Conceiving Virtuality: From Art to Technology; Teoria das Formas Imagéticas. Ensaios sobre Arte, Estética, Tecnologia; Philosophy of Care: New Approaches to Vulnerability, Otherness and Therapy; The Quantification of Bodies in Health.