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Caring Ontology: Ethics and the Call of Suffering

1998; Volume: 2; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.20467/1091-5710.2.2.30

2578-2304

M. Simone Roach,

Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity

This paper examines the primacy of caring as the ground for ethics, addressing the call of suffering as a moral call. It provides a brief overview of the author’s work on an ontology of caring as the human mode of being. Noting approaches to ethics as a discipline of knowledge and system of moral inquiry, the paper focuses on ethics as relational responsibility. The call of suffering is seen as filling the empty spaces in the human heart (Leon Bloy). It concludes with thoughts on the Pieta, the classic work of Michelangelo, a project that appealed to his tenderness and compassion; and the importance of story portrayed in poetry by Edwina Gateley.