07 Care Ethics and Moral Relationships Free Online FlashCards

What does care ethics emphasize?

Care ethics centers relationships, human vulnerability, and responsibilities to respond to others’ needs.

What did Carol Gilligan challenge?

In In a Different Voice (1982), Gilligan challenged accounts that treated relationship-centered care reasoning as less mature than reasoning based on rules and rights.

Does care ethics claim women are naturally more caring?

Care ethics is not the claim that women are naturally more caring; feminist approaches also examine gendered expectations about who provides care and whose needs count.

What is central to Nel Noddings’s account of care?

Nel Noddings developed an account of care centered on the relationship between the person caring and the person receiving care.

How can relationships shape moral responsibilities?

Relationships can shape what people know about one another and what they can reasonably do for one another, creating particular responsibilities.

How does care ethics view dependency?

Dependency is part of human life at different stages, not an exceptional condition limited to infancy, illness, or old age.

What role can emotion play in care ethics?

Concern, attentiveness, and empathy can help reveal distress or needs, but good care also requires judgment and an appropriate response.

What can rule- or outcome-focused theories overlook?

Care ethicists argue that these approaches can overlook particular relationships, embodied needs, unequal power, and everyday care work.

How can care and justice complement each other?

Care attends to particular needs and connections; justice helps assess whether care and its burdens are distributed fairly.

How might a teacher respond with care to a student supporting a sick relative?

A teacher could listen without assumptions, understand the student’s circumstances, and consider practical support such as an extension or school services.

What risks should care ethics examine?

Care can become controlling, exploitative, or unfairly favor family; it can also reinforce expectations that marginalized people provide unpaid support.

What did Virginia Held argue about care?

Virginia Held argued that care should be taken seriously as a moral and political practice.