Author: Sylwin Cornielje

Sylwin Cornielje

Sylwin Cornielje obtained two Masters Degrees in Humanistic Studies in 2018 and Philosophy in 2019. He currently works as a social worker, caring as house visitor for persons with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). His academic interest focuses on intersections of ethics, social theory, and fieldwork methodology.

On The Art of Disguising Suffering

While graduating as a student in Humanistic Studies and Political Philosophy, Sylwin Cornielje was charmed by the critical studies, that care ethics engaged in. By any means, these studies involve the question of what ‘a good society’ means from a variety of different disciplines and outlooks. As Sylwin Cornielje describes it, care ethics – more specifically the way in which he came to learn of it – at that time practiced political theory, including a small ethical theory. Continue reading On The Art of Disguising Suffering

Care as a political category

While presenting a short outline in his discussion of Fabienne Brugère’s book Care Ethics. The Introduction of Care as Political Category, editor Sylwin Cornielje elaborates also two themes that Brugère leaves open, as he believes these matters necessarily need to be clarified in order for care to become a convincing ground for political ethics in late modern society. Continue reading Care as a political category