DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ARTS, CONSTANTINE THE PHILOSOPHER UNIVERSITY IN NITRA

The Covid-19 crisis adds an intolerable burden to humanity, not only exposing common experience of vulnerability, but also raise an awareness of how to live a flourishing life in a time of crisis. This further postulate a question on the integration or separateness of the notion vulnerability and flourishing. The puzzling situation between these two notions, however, not only demonstrates the contemporary-oriented denial of vulnerability and appraisal of flourishing, but invokes a search for an adequate stance on the correlation between the concept of flourishing and vulnerability. Moreover, besides conventional agreements on the meaning of vulnerability as a condition of being easily wounded and flourishing as human desire for growth and happiness both concepts requires a pragmatic approach, one where human experience is in the midst of such reflection. The current article presents a brief interdisciplinary assessment of the concept of vulnerability and flourishing outlining their circumstantial and interdependent dynamic. This will be done by outlining a brief assessment of the notion of vulnerability, in the first part; the notion of flourishing in the second; and as a point of conclusion, the article set forward the structures of their collaboration and interdependency.vulnerability, flourishing, interdependency, human embodiment, life circumstances

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