Mission and Vision
In the current socio-cultural context, we perceive the crucial nature of the anthropological “crisis” at different levels. Hasty and partial diagnoses are not enough, because “what is happening confronts us with the urgency of proceeding in a courageous cultural revolution.” We need to become aware that “what is emerging before our eyes today is ‘a great cultural, spiritual, and educational challenge that will involve long processes of regeneration, including for ecclesiastical universities and schools.”
The relevance of the project emerges from the national and international debate on the concept of care, which has redefined some areas of ethics from the philosophy of the second person (integrating the “you” into the existential constitution of the “I”). The innovativeness of the project consists in applying the concept of care to two aspects of human identity: the relationship with self and with otherness (world and Transcendence).
Indeed, the promotion of care is an indispensable condition for a society that opposes the paradigm of immunization with that of proximity and solicitude.
Interdisciplinary Forum on Anthropology
The aim of the research
This project aims to offer a response to the anthropological crisis, rebuilding the culture of care, which is the profound vocation of the human person: the care of the human being and its flourishing in the different dimensions of existence (e.g., relationships, the environment, the common good, the artistic heritage, the sacred). The general objectives of the research are linked with the interdisciplinary analysis of the culture of care in order to offer possible responses to the current anthropological crisis.
Specific objectives:
- Historical-critical analysis (Background) of recently theorized paradigms of care, with relation to the notion of vulnerability and fragility.
- Theoretical analysis of the application of the concept of care to the essential dimensions of human experience emphasized above.
- Anthropological applications and redefinition of the concept of care starting from three aspects that challenge the traditional notion: the pervasiveness of technology; the commercialization of care (the “service society”); the crisis of the care professions.
