Care beyond autonomy:the reCognition of our vulnerable Capabilities

Abstract

n this complex context, it seems crucial to rethink the semantics associated tothe polysomic notion of vulnerability in each theoretical context making useof it. My aim in this paper is to determine at what conditions the articulationof the notions of vulnerability, care, recognition and capability could serve as acritical theory rooted in the specific discourse of feminist bioethics and beyond.How such a cluster of concepts could have a global impact on egalitarian ethicaldiscourse, while care and vulnerability without capabilities underline the asym-metry of subjects. The cluster of parallel concepts between care theory, capabil-ity and differentialist theory, are as I will argue, all addressing, in a critical mode,the way we could and should address vulnerability as a normative concept. It isas though vulnerability was challenging egalitarism, when egalitarian intention-ality is to erase the consequences of vulnerability