Vulnerability is said in many ways

The pandemic has demonstrated, in an amplified way, that vulnerability is common to all human beings. Nevertheless, the paradigm shift proposed by the ethics and discourses built around vulnerability did not take hold. The call for a more just and less competitive society, which became widespread during the pandemic, did not immediately seem to be as urgent afterwards. In fact, since the pandemic, attitudes seem to reflect a desire to erase this experience and restore the status quo ante.Can this operational limit of the concept of vulnerability be a sufficient reason to abandon this interpretive paradigm and return to the old Promethean idea of man which shaped modern society? In the light of the pandemic, is it not worthwhile instead to ques-tion vulnerability more deeply? Is it not important to continue reflecting on the anthropological approach underlying vulnerability in order to understand how it can provide an ethical and political perspective for building a better future? Starting from these questions, this essay explores vulnerability from a philosophical perspective, analysing its strengths and weaknesses.