Vol. 6 (2025)

Care is a central category of contemporary ethics, intertwining anthropological, moral, political, and social dimensions. Far from being confined to the private sphere or to healthcare practices alone, care appears as a fundamental mode of being-in-relation and as a key concept for understanding individual and collective responsibility.

The latest volume of Etica-mente. L’annuario is devoted to a philosophical reflection on the concept of care, explored in its theoretical and practical articulations. The contributions address care as a response to vulnerability, as a structure of embodied experience, and as an ethical principle capable of orienting action in everyday life, institutional contexts, and technological transformations.

The issue examines themes such as care for others, care of the self, care of social and urban spaces, as well as the tensions between care, autonomy, and justice. Within this framework, care emerges as a critical category for rethinking social bonds and the conditions of coexistence in contemporary societies marked by widespread fragility and new forms of dependency.

The volume aims to contribute to an ongoing philosophical debate that understands care not merely as a moral attitude, but as a constitutive dimension of the human condition and an essential normative horizon for ethics today.