Learning to Care for Others: an Urgent Task in the Moral Education of a Country Where We are Killing Each Other

Abstract

Caring for each other is a necessary and urgent learning process in our country. To see the face of someone by our side and assume a cry that says “don’t kill me… I need you” is crucial for understanding what it means to acknowledge each other, whether it is under Levinas’ principle of otherness, Jonas’ principle of responsibility, Cortina’s principle of friendliness, Noddings’ principle of care, or Panikkar’s principle of ontonomy. The ethics of care does not substitute the ethics of justice or law; it enhances them because it demands gratuity from human beings, and in consequence, it leverages them to be more with others. Learning to take care of others and other things becomes a program that challenges educational processes of a school which mission is to educate new generations in a context like ours.