The purpose of this work is to analyze the category of care as an ethical value. For this I propose to retake an approach called ethics of care, exposing its main characteristics. I consider that one of the main criticisms made to this theory has to do with the indeterminacy of the normative content of the notion of care, and the subsequent impossibility of formulating a complete ethical theory that uses it as a fundamental category in directing the moral action of people. To circumvent this limitation, I have sought to analyze the category of care based on the specific context in which it is carried out. For this I have taken, as empirical material, the philosophy of hospice care, used in the care of people with terminal illnesses at the end of life within the institutions belonging to the modern hospice movement. Arguing in what way this philosophy can be understood as an ethics of car...

In this work we reflect on how the ontologically vulnerable and fragile character of the human can become a useful ethical value to guide the practice of care at the end-of-life. We will address in principle the distinction between contextual and ontological vulnerability, to argue the inherently fragile character of the human condition. We will take the metaphor of the wounded healer as one of the sources from which the idea of ​​vulnerability is introduced as a model of care. Finally, we will present some reflections on how care at the end of life, typical of the hospice philosophy, allows us to think of the scope of human vulnerability as an ethical value constitutive of the practice of caring. Among the proposals, we believe that vulnerability as an ethical value justifies, due to its relationally constructed character, the establishment of symmetrical helping relationships and t...