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What Does Vulnerability Mean?
Author(s) -
HOFFMASTER BARRY
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
hastings center report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1552-146X
pISSN - 0093-0334
DOI - 10.1353/hcr.2006.0024
Subject(s) - meaning (existential) , vulnerability (computing) , feeling , humanity , sociology , morality , social psychology , psychology , environmental ethics , criminology , law , political science , computer security , philosophy , computer science , psychotherapist
Vulnerability does not mean much for our contemporary morality. It is antithetical to our emphasis on individualism and rationality; it requires that we attend to the body and to our feelings. Yet only by recognizing the depth and breadth of our vulnerability can we affirm our humanity.