CLD 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Essentialism, Sara Ruddick, Virginia Held
4 Apr 2016
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Cld 500 a caring world for children. *guiding reading questions: mid-term test will focus on these questions as well as others content in the readings and lecture content. Prior to 1980 held states there was no philosophical acknowledgement that mothers think or reason or that one can find moral values in this practice (26). *care as moral theory is developing as each day goes by* Held locates the origins of the ethics of care in essay titled maternal thinking (1980) by philosopher sara ruddick which sought to validate women"s experience of caring for children. Noddings highlights carol gilligan"s 1982 critique of the heinz dilemma (p. 27) developed by kohlberg (1958). Care theory has moved beyond its original formulations as essentially a morality of women, belonging to the private sphere (held, p. 22). Ethics of care is a normative ethical theory about what makes actions right or wrong. It sees to become a dominant moral theory.
