ABSTRACT The ethics of care addresses aspects of the human condition that other moral theories overlook—our vulnerability to injury, inevitable dependencies, and ubiquitous needs. In the grip of these experiences, we require care from others to survive and flourish. The precarious nature of human existence represents a related experience, one less thoroughly explored within care ethics. Through examination of these occasions for care, this article offers two contributions: First, a map of the conceptual relations between care ethics’ four key concepts: need, vulnerability, dependency, and precariousness. As a subset of these efforts, I investigate the relevance of precariousness and precarity for care ethics by asking what they require of caring relations that vulnerability does not. Second, a more precise articulation of care ethics’ normative foundations and accompanying elucidation of the alternative vision of moral responsibility care ethics advances. Examining need, vulnerability, dependency, and precariousness through the lenses of finitude and embodiment exposes two common forms of conflation: between precarity and vulnerability and between dependency and vulnerability. Analysis of the moral significance of the body as a site for care reveals a novel portrayal of the normative foundations of care ethics and the reasons why we care for one another ethically.

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从脆弱到不稳定：检验护理伦理的道德基础

摘要 护理伦理解决了其他道德理论忽视的人类状况的各个方面——我们易受伤害、不可避免的依赖和无处不在的需求。在掌握这些经验的过程中，我们需要他人的关心才能生存和发展。人类生存的不稳定本质代表了一种相关的经验，在护理伦理中没有得到彻底的探索。通过对这些护理场合的考察，本文提供了两个贡献：第一，护理伦理的四个关键概念之间的概念关系图：需要、脆弱性、依赖和不稳定。作为这些努力的一个子集，我通过询问脆弱性不需要的关怀关系需要什么来调查不稳定和不稳定与护理伦理的相关性。第二，更精确地阐明护理伦理的规范基础，并伴随着对道德责任护理伦理的替代愿景的阐明。通过有限性和具身性的镜头检查需要、脆弱性、依赖和不稳定揭示了两种常见的混淆形式：不稳定和脆弱之间以及依赖和脆弱之间。对身体作为护理场所的道德意义的分析揭示了护理伦理规范基础的新写照，以及我们在伦理上彼此关心的原因。在不稳定和脆弱之间以及在依赖和脆弱之间。对身体作为护理场所的道德意义的分析揭示了护理伦理规范基础的新写照，以及我们在伦理上彼此关心的原因。在不稳定和脆弱之间以及在依赖和脆弱之间。对身体作为护理场所的道德意义的分析揭示了护理伦理规范基础的新写照，以及我们在伦理上彼此关心的原因。