Sensibilidade como Percepção Ética : o Invisível que Sustenta as Relações Humanas

This article reflects on sensitivity not as emotional fragility, but as a form of ethical perception capable of sustaining human relationships in a world marked by haste, sensory overload, and superficial listening. Adopting an essayistic approach, the text engages in dialogue with authorial literary writing understood as a field of observation of everyday life, nature, and subtle gestures that often go unnoticed. An authorial corpus of poetic prose is mobilized as a space for exercising attention to the invisible — threads, silences, and bonds that, although discreet, support human experience. In dialogue with philosophical reflections on perception, attention, and ethics, the article argues that perceiving is an act of responsibility: listening to what does not shout, recognizing what does not seek visibility, and sustaining what offers no immediate return. It concludes by affirming that sensitivity, far from excess or vulnerability, constitutes a fundamental ethical gesture capable of restoring presence, listening, and human commitment in times of dispersion and relativization of meaning.