EDL 204 Chapter 7: ethics of caring
4 Oct 2016
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Ethics that take relationships as the fundamental moral commitment. Ethic of care is a rational ethic asserting that our fundamental ethical obligations accrue to those people with whom we live. Caring is a description of a relationship rather than a description of an individual"s personal feelings. Caring describes a kind of relationship between persons. Caring relationship must be between concrete people. There has to be real contact between the people, not just their notions or thoughts. In order for a relationship to be a caring one: one-caring must present engrossment(act of being engrossed in the cared for and attempting to experiences the world as the cared-for experience). It requires the one-caring must be totally present to the other during the caring moment: the one-caring must exhibit displacement of motivation. In a caring relationship, the cared-for must recognize and receive the caring in a way that signals to the one-caring that his/her efforts are understood and acknowledged in the same way.
