What is care ethics and why is it important?
Normatively, care ethics seeks to maintain relationships by contextualizing and promoting the well-being of care-givers and care-receivers in a network of social relations. Most often defined as a practice or virtue rather than a theory as such, “care” involves maintaining the world of, and meeting the needs of, ourself and others.
What are some examples of care ethics?
In addition to the above topics, care ethics has been applied to a number of timely ethical debates, including reproductive technology, homosexuality and gay marriage, capital punishment, political agency, hospice care, and HIV treatment, as well as aspects of popular culture, such as the music of U-2 and The Sopranos.
What is morality in the ethics of care?
To the ethics of care, morality is less a matter of rational recognition and more a matter of taking responsibility for particular other persons in need. Does that mean we should deliberate with absolutely no regard for principles?