Tag: Vulnerability

• April 4, 2015

  Vulnerability on the wrong side of the ledger

  Claiming that vulnerability is a moral virtue makes the mistake of putting vulnerability on the wrong side of the ledger. An existential term, it is made to pose as an ethical concept. Jonathan Lear helps us see why this is the case. For in Radical Hope Lear advances the metaphysical thesis that human beings are finite erotic creatures. We are…
• May 29, 2012

  On having needs and making requests – Part 1

  I As social animals, we have needs and desires. Part of growing up involves learning how to fulfill more of our needs and desires without the aid of others. The other part involves learning that some of our needs can only be fulfilled by others. Here is where social life gets interesting and quite often…