The ethics of care : personal, political, and global / Virginia Held.
The author assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. Held examines what we mean by care and focuses on caring relationships. She also looks at the potential of care for dealing with social issues and global pr...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Care and moral theory
- The ethics of care as moral theory
- Care as practice and value
- The caring person
- Justice, utility, and care
- Liberalism and the ethics of care
- Caring relations and the principles of justice
- Care and society
- Care and the extension of markers
- Civil society, rights, and the presumption of care
- Power, care, and the reach of law
- Care and justice in the global context.