Caring A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education

Name: Caring A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education
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ISBN: 9780520275706

ISBN-10: 0520275705

ISBN-13: 9780520275706

Edition: 2nd 2013 (Revised)

Authors: Nel Noddings, Garrett White, Jean-Claude Carriere, Rafael Bunuel

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With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child.In Caring--now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing relevance of the subject matter--the author provides a wide-ranging consideration of whether organizations, which operate at a remove from the caring relationship, can truly be called ethical. She discusses the extent to which we may truly care for plants, animals, or ideas. Finally, she proposes a realignment of education to encourage and reward not just rationality and trained intelligence, but also…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface to the 2013 Edition


Preface to the 2003 Edition


Introduction



Why Care About Caring?


The fundamental nature of caring


What does it mean to care?


Problems arising in the analysis of one-caring


The cared-for


Aesthetical caring


Caring and acting


Ethics and caring



The One-Caring


Receiving


Thinking and feeling: turning points


Guilt and courage


Women and caring


Circles and chains


Asymmetry and reciprocity in caring


The ethical ideal and the ethical self


Rules and conflicts



The Cared-For


The one-caring's attitude and its effects


Apprehension of caring necessary to the caring relationship; unequal meetings


Reciprocity


The ethics of being cared for



An Ethic of Caring


From natural to ethical caring


Obligation


Right and wrong


The problem of justification


Women and morality: virtue


The toughness of caring



Construction of the Ideal


The nature of the ideal


Constraints and attainability


Diminished ethical capacity


Nurturing the ideal


Maintaining the ideal



Enhancing the Ideal: Joy


Our basic reality and affect


How should we describe emotion?


Perception and emotion: the object of emotion and its appraisal


Emotions as reasons


Joy as exalted


Receptivity and joy in intellectual work


Joy as basic affect



Caring For Animals, Plants, Things and Ideas


Our relation with animals


Our relation to plants


Things and ideas


Summary



Moral Education


What is moral education?


The one-caring as teacher


Dialogue


Practice


Confirmation


Organizing schools for caring


Afterword


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index