Between Care and Justice: The Passions as Social Resource (SUNY in Contemporary Italian Philosophy)

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. Contents Translators’ Acknowledgments Author’s Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Beyond Homo Oeconomicus: Empathy and Moral Sentiments Is There an Ethical Role for the Passions? Rediscovering Empathy: The Force of Imagination From Empathy to Moral Sentiments, from Sentiments to Engagement 2. Care versus Justice or Care and Justice? Toward a Reciprocal Integration Another Idea of Justice 3. The Passions of Justice: Not Only Compassion Empathy and Compassion The Sentiment of Injustice Envy or Indignation? 4. The Passions of Care: For Good Care What Passions Motivate Us to Care? Caring Out of Love Attendant Care 5. Global Perspectives: Care and Justice Confronting the Challenge of the Spatially Distant Other New Figures of the Other The Other Distant in Space Indignation and Compassion Fear and Resentment Hospitality and Recognition 6. Global Perspectives: Care and Justice Confronting the Challenge of the Temporally Distant Other Intergenerational Justice The Responsible Subject and Indirect Reciprocity Global Passions: Fear for the World, Love of the World Promise and Care Care, Form of Life 7. For an Emotive Subject: Taking Care of the Passions A Paideia of the Passions Generative Sentiments Generating the Future Notes Index About the Author 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.