Tiempo de cuidados

The ethics of care has become a central and peremptory issue in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. A virus has forced us to accept limitations that we could never have imagined, it has made us a little less arrogant and self-confident. In the field of theory, this awareness should lead to a change in the paradigm or mental framework, capable of balancing reason and feeling, in the exercise of the much-used "emotional intelligence", whose practical contributions are not always evident. It must be recognized that there is a right to be cared for and a duty to take care that does not admit exceptions, that affects everyone and whose responsibility must be assumed individually and collectively. Time of care aims to silence the voices that still resist placing care in a prominent place, opposing it to justice. Both are complementary values, since the categories attached to care break the binary conception of gender that feminism has not yet succeeded in replacing. Privileging masculine categories -me, reason, mind- to the detriment of others considered feminine -emotions, the body, reciprocities-, or maintaining that binary division that distributes the functions of each gender, implies maintaining patriarchy and weakening democracy. As Carol Gilligan says: "In a patriarchal context, caring is a feminine ethic; in a democratic context, caring is a human ethic".