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The moral theory known as “ the ethics of care” implies that there is moral significance in the fundamental elements of relationships and dependencies in human life. Normatively, care ethics seeks to maintain relationships by contextualizing and promoting the well-being of care-givers and care-receivers in a network of social relations.
ethics of care, feminist philosophical perspective that uses a relational and context-bound approach toward morality and decision making. The term ethics of care refers to ideas concerning both the nature of morality and normative ethical theory. The ethics of care perspective stands in stark contrast to ethical theories that rely on principles ...
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The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories that were developed by some feminists and environmentalists since the 1980s. [1]
Jul 28, 2023 · The ethics of care also begun to figure prominently in both addressing specific moral, political, and legal issues and advancing resolution strategies. Drawing upon a revised Marxian tradition, Diemut Bubeck responds to women’s exploitation by developing a critical theory of women’s work as care (Bubeck 1995 ).
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The ethics of care is a distinctive approach to moral theory that emphasizes the importance of responsibility, concern, and relationship over consequences (utilitarianism) or rules (deontologism). The concept of care is inherent to professions that care for individuals and this approach to ethics has therefore been a central part of ...
May 16, 2019 · Ethics of care is a feminist approach to ethics. It challenges traditional moral theories as male-centric and problematic to the extent they omit or downplay values and virtues usually culturally associated with women or with roles that are often cast as ‘feminine’. The best example of this may be seen in how ethics of care differs from two ...
Abstract. The ethics of care sees a disposition to care appropriately for others as the chief characteristic of a morally desirable psychology. Such a disposition can be viewed as a virtue. This article, however, rejects the idea that the ethics of care is a kind of virtue theory on the grounds that its focus is on caring relations between ...
