Judith Butler's Ethics of Vulnerability and Social Work Practice

This study aims to develop a philosophical and ethical discussion onvulnerability based on Judith Butler's ethics of vulnerability and explore thepossibility of its application to social work practice. We experience various forms ofvulnerability in social work practice fields, but we overlook the fact that vulnerabilitycan be another path for social work practice. This is because although studies onvulnerability are being conducted at various levels, they do not lead to philosophicaland ethical reflections on vulnerability. To this end, this study examined the reasonsfor focusing on Judith Butler's ethics of vulnerability, the ethical responsibilities ofsocial workers to understand the ethics of vulnerability, various ways of looking atvulnerability, the perspectives of social work practice, and the innovative aspects ofButler's concept of vulnerability, and suggested tasks for the possibility of applying Butler's ethics of vulnerability to social work practice.