PHL 302 Lecture 3: Week 3 - CARE ETHICS AND FEMINIST ETHICS
13 Dec 2011
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Week 3 - care ethics and feminist ethics. Feminist approaches fall into two categories: the ethics of care and feminist ethics. The compelling moral salience of attending to and meeting the needs of particular others for whom we take responsibility. Focuses on relationships, in particular the relationships between those who are dependent and their caregivers. Rather than excluding emotions from our ethical deliberations (e. g. kantians, utilitarians), the ethics of care values emotions, and sees ethical approaches that depend entirely on reason and rationalistic deductions or calculations as deficient. Ethics of care challenges the assumption, central to kantism and utilitarianism, that it is impartiality that the moral decision maker should strive for (removing oneself from the situation and acting as a passive observer, removed of any duty). Rather than this abstract perspective, care ethics recommends the decision maker to preserve or promote an actual human relation between themselves and particular others.
