Existence, care and emotions

Asking the question of the relationship between care and emotions is the same as asking what care can move. However, as is evident, the latter does not have a single face. There are different forms of cure, which arise from different emotional sources. "Taking care of" is a movement of opening the self to the other. As such it can only be thought of in the horizon of ex-existence and not of mere life. Attention is focused on the emotional sources related to three fundamental modalities of the ecstatic opening that connotes the existence: the tension towards the goal, the search for meaning and the question of meaning. Taking the distance from the enormous development - in some ways pervasive - of the healing practices that are placed on the terrain of life, its conservation and its strengthening, care is considered as a practice that is placed in the horizon of existential openness to meaning. In conclusion, we focus on sharing as an essential trait of care understood as an ethical attitude. Sharing is an essential condition so that care does not transform the other's vulnerability into an annihilating dependence and therefore safeguard his autonomy. The ethics of care cannot be limited to thinking about care within the horizon of praxis, but it must also think about it in terms of spirituality. Taking care of the other in an ethical sense is not only an action, but also an inner disposition.