AJ 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Restorative Justice
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Ethics of care: care ethics is another ethical system which does not rely on abstract laws or formulae to assess morality. The focus is on human needs and relationships. Care ethics has been identified as a feminine morality because women are the childbearers in all societies, and therefore tend to be more prone to care issues. Noddings (1986: 1) points out that in western, masculine study, the. "one is tempted to suggest that ethics has so far been directed by. There are parallels in the philosophy of the concept of caring that values originate from normal human instincts of compassion, and the argument of jean-jacques. The most interesting aspect of this approach is that while a very small number of women have expressed rights needs, no men have. In a care-based ethical system, we should be concerned more with needs concerns than rights issues.
