Joan Tronto e l’etica della cura: dal mito dell’autonomia al concetto di interdipendenza

The aim of this article is to analyze the concept of interdependence in order to show how it constitutes the foundation of Joan Tronto’s ethics of care. Rather than offering a complete exposition of Tronto’s framework, this work intends to highlight not only the centrality of interdependence for care ethics, but also the need for an ontological shift from the Kantian view of human beings as autonomous to humans as interdependent and needy. The main question concerns how it is possible to rethink humanity no longer as autonomous, but as vulnerable and interdependent.