ABSTRACT
Pamela Anderson argues that the people understanding of the human condition would profit from rethinking the vulnerability of love, leaving behind the associate myths of the Western philosophical imaginary. Focusing on the dynamic reciprocal permeability which is distinctive of love, the author concur with Anderson that emotional vulnerability is not the source of burdens and constraints but a precious capacity that enables relations of mutual accountability, shapes human identity, expands individual agency, and shapes integrity in interactive and historical ways. In order to capture the relevant sort of vulnerability that the ethical and ontological approaches identify, the author propose that the people deploy an alternative contrastive pair of concepts circumstantial and constitutive vulnerability which cuts across the ontological and ethical dichotomy. In Kant’s view,the constraining role of reason is not equivalent to limiting the agent’s opportunities for action, for example by selecting the morally appropriate motives and telling right from wrong.
