Social vulnerability: reflections from the pandemic

Abstract

Vulnerability is a recurring topic in the ethical reflections that have occurred during this period of pandemic in the world. However, most of the reflections approach it from the individual dimension, from the anthropology that attends to the suffering and emotions of the human being as a singular entity. Faced with this perspective, we believe that from an understanding of the human being as a political or social animal, the analysis and description of vulnerability as a very recurrent feeling and idea during the pandemic acquires an important relevance not only in the description of how we have lived this exceptional time but in our reflections on philosophical anthropology and on the political dimension that refer us to departures close to the tradition of the care of.the self.