Ethics of Care Personal, Political, and Global

Name: Ethics of Care Personal, Political, and Global
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ISBN: 9780195325904

ISBN-10: 0195325907

ISBN-13: 9780195325904

Edition: 2007

Authors: Virginia Held

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Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It is relevant to global and political matters as well as to the personal relations that can most clearly exemplify care. This book clarifies just what the ethics of care is: what its characteristics are, what it holds, and what it enables us to do. It discusses the feminist roots of this moral approach and why the ethics of care can be a morality with universal appeal. Held examines what we mean by "care," and…

Book details

List price: $71.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English




Care and Moral Theory



The Ethics of Care as a Moral Theory



Care as Practice and Value



The Caring Person



Justice, Utility, and Care



Liberalism and the Ethics of Care



Caring Relations and Principles of Justice



Care and the Extension of Markets



Civil Society, Rights, and the Presumption of Care



Power, Care and The Reach of Law



Care and Justice in the Global Context