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Caring and Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Abstract

Nel Noddings, in Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education (1984), presents and develops an ethic of care as an alternative to an ethic that treats justice as a basic concept. I argue that this care ethic is unable to give an adequate account of ethical relationships between strangers and that it is also in danger of valorizing relationships in which carers are seriously abused.

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Review Symposium
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Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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