Prendre soin et prodiguer des soins Le souci de soi, des autres et de la nature

Taking care and caring for : concern for self, others and nature. The aim of the article is to sketch out the idea that care has to be thought of as an existential concept, i.e., a way of being, which, as such, concerns simultaneously the self, the other, human beings and nature. In the context of globalization this existential care also implies a political dimension. Unless the existential and the political dimensions of care are articulated together, discourses on care run the risk of being reduced, as is often the case today, to the determining of technical rules for behavior whose aim is to moralize human relations.