The article is an attempt to present the fundamental function that care and practical reason serve in Michael Slote’ s moral theory. Presenting them within a single theory is a daring attempt to combine the primary intuition of this ethical theory with the subjectively relevant theory of practical rationality, particularly in comparison with the popular version of the feminist ethics of care, to which Slote considered himself intellectually indebted. This virtue ethics has a sentimental or as Slote puts is "agent based" character and is relatively rare today.
The aim of this article is to show how the inseparability of its objective and subjective dimensions renders pains such a complex phenomenon that it poses a challenge for both the biomedical sciences and philosophy. Neurophysiology has ascertained the variability of the relationship between damage and pain, showing that it is the result of interaction between the sensory and affective-emotional constituents of the human being. However, the process of defining the clinical concept of suffering appears comprehensively laborious and ongoing. Philosophy, while declaring the impossibility of identifying the essence of pain, makes a valuable contribution to the discovery of the singularity of the experience, thanks to the phenomenology of the homo patients. Finally, we examine the debate on the possibility and the different ways of narrating and appraising suffering, a need with obvious ethical implications, perceived more and more within the field of care, also given the chronicity of many medical conditions.
This study examines the concepts of crip identity and coalitional subjectivities, which are grounded in shared identification with conditions of disability. The primary objective is to present these concepts as powerful tools for contemporary feminist anti-neoliberal resistance and to contribute to the discourse on the relevance of identity politics. The study views crip identity as a promise of independent subjectivation for people with disabilities, offering a powerful potential for political action. However, in the context of post-socialist Central European countries, a more robust political capacity can be achieved through rehabilitating coalition subjectivities established on a shared basis of identification with conditions of disability or illness. The ultimate goal of the study is to demonstrate how the ethics of care and crip theories’ understanding of subjectivity and care provide an alternative foundation for social organization.
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