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Homines Curans

4 important questions on Homines Curans

From which premise does care ontology starts and has been seen?

Care has always have to be seen as

Relational,
Vulnerable,
Care recipients and -givers work from reciprocity
Care is always seen from context.

It starts from the premise that everything exists in relation to other things; it is thus relational and assumes that people, other beings and the environment are interdependent.

Care presumes that people become autonomous and capable of acting on their own through a complex process of growth, in which they are both interdependent and transformed as they live.

Assigning responsibility is a collective act, not an abstract, scientific of legal endeavor.

What does it mean that all humans are vulnerable and fragile?

All humans are extremely vulnerable at some points in their lives; in changing their bodily conditions that may require that they rely on others for care and support.

What is particular on the item that people are both care-givers and care-recipients?

The particularity about it, is the shifting in needs and capacities for care.
Peoples capacities and needs shift for each person throughout life; at any moment in a society, there are those who are neediest and those who are the mos capable of helping themselves and others.

What does it mean to see care as a political ideal?

Care has a specific meaning; a primary task of democratic societies is to allocate caring responsibilities.

Recognizing that allocating responsibility is the political dimension of this discussion helps us to see how homines currant can reawaken in people their own expressions of homo politicus.