LA ÉTICA DEL CUIDADO: DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD MORAL Y LA TRANSFORMACIÓN DEMOCRÁTICA A UNA NUEVA CULTURA DEL CUIDADO: de la responsabilidad moral y la transformación democrática a una nueva cultura del cuidado

Abstract

This article studies the proposal of care as a moral responsibility, which implies an institutional and democratic conception and, we propose, that it requires a transformation of a collective ethos. A society of care is based on the recognition of vulnerability as a critical instance and as a priority. The paper starts from a sense of care in which three related aspects come together: care as practice, as ethics and as politics. It begins by reviewing the contribution of the feminist ethics of care and its characteristics, as well as the debate on the relationship between justice and care. It considers that in order for the realization of the rights that accompany the need for care to be effective, it is necessary to consider what care should be given priority and who should assume this responsibility. But inevitably it arises the need to rethink how to organize democracy itself in a society that wants to put care at the center. It is suggested that the ethics of care can be considered as an instrument of critical ethics in the hands of a democratic citizenship in a way that helps to shape a collective ethos around the society of care.