The Moral Discourse in the Contemporary World Starting from the Ontological Vulnerability of the Creature

the vulnerability, as an onto-anthropological condition of the human, in the posture of fragility and limitation tends man towards the things of the world. It is, therefore, an ontological condition of finitude and fragility, but it is also an ethical posture. The intention is to outline the ambivalence of vulnerability: a permanent and inevitable contingent condition, that exposes man to fortune (tyche) and at the same time projects him into the horizons of value. Through Martha Nussbaum's reading of Aristotle's thought, we intend to reflect on the nous of the concept of vulnerability, as ontological prius of every universal principle