Between Care and Justice

<p><b>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.</b></p><p>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 <i>the</i> 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.</p>