scholarly journals A Rapprochement between Feminist Ethics of Care and Contemporary Theology

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Helenka Mannering
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
Benedict Xvi ◽  
Moral Philosophies ◽  
Moral Problems ◽  
Liberal Individualism

Ethics of care is a relatively new approach to morality, first developed as a feminist ethical theory in the 1980s by Carol Gilligan, Sara Ruddick, and Nel Noddings. It is based on the experience and responsibility of providing care and is distinct from other popular moral philosophies including Kantian moral theory, utilitarianism, or virtue ethics, although it has some similarities to virtue ethics. Founded on a relational ontology, it offers a deeply incisive critique of liberal individualism through ethical reflection. It is also committed to a particularism which recognises the importance of addressing moral problems in the context of lived experience. In this article, after an analysis of the foundational perspectives of care ethics, it will be contended that its central tenets tie in with contemporary approaches in theology, particularly those expressed in the writings of St John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Furthermore, it will be suggested that the anthropological and moral insights of these theologians can offer the ethics of care a deeper ontological and epistemological grounding, hence strengthening its viability and existential appeal.

Caring about Nature: Feminist Ethics and the Environment

Hypatia ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger J.H. King
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Deep Ecology ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Promising Alternative

In this essay I examine the relevance of the vocabulary of an ethics of care to ecofeminism. While this vocabulary appears to offer a promising alternative to moral extensionism and deep ecology, there are problems with the use of this vocabulary by both essentialists and conceptualists. I argue that too great a reliance is placed on personal lived experience as a basis for ecofeminist ethics and that the concept of care is insufficiently determinate to explicate the meaning of care for nature.

scholarly journals RŪPESČIO ETIKA IR EMMANUELIS LEVINAS

Problemos ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 112-125
Author(s):  
Renata Bikauskaitė
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Moral Philosophy ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Ethical Theories ◽  
Nel Noddings

Rūpesčio etika šiuolaikinės moralės filosofijos lauke yra gana naujas, vienalytiškumu bei griežtai apibrėžtu žodynu nepasižymintis darinys. Rūpesčio etika užima kritinę poziciją tradicinių etinių teorijų atžvilgiu, tačiau kai kurie jos atstovai, ieškodami tvirtesnio filosofinio pagrindo, siekia įtraukti ją į dorybių etikos teoriją. Šiame straipsnyje siūloma kitokia strategija: įtraukti rūpesčio etiką į Emmanuelio Levino filosofijos kontekstą. Analizuojant vienos žymiausių rūpesčio etikos atstovių Nel Noddings idėjas ir lyginant jas su Levino filosofija siekiama atskleisti abiejų etinių diskursų sankirtos taškus ir bendradarbiavimo galimybes. Straipsnyje teigiama, kad Levino etika suteikia Noddings natūralistinei rūpesčio etikai gilesnį normatyvinį pagrindą ir platesnį filosofinį kontekstą jos kontroversiškoms sąvokoms.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: rūpesčio etika, Noddings, Levinas.Ethics of Care and Emmanuel LevinasRenata BikauskaitėSummaryIn the context of the contemporary moral philosophy ethics of care appears to be quite a new discipline that lacks homogeneity and a well-defined moral vocabulary. Ethics of care is highly critical of the traditional ethical theories, though a few representatives, who are looking for well-established philosophical grounds, try to subsume it under the category of theory of virtue ethics. In this paper a different approach emerges which seeks to incorporate the ethics of care within the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. By analysing the ideas of Nel Noddings – one of the best known representatives of the ethics of care – and comparing them with the philosophy of Levinas an attempt is made to describe the overlaps between these two ethical discourses and explore the possibilities of their cooperation. This paper claims that Levinas’ ethics provides a deeper normative ground for the naturalistic care ethics of Nodings and a wider philosophical context for its controversial notions.Keywords: Ethics of care, Noddings, Levinas.

Pedro Almodóvar’s Communities of Circumstance

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Meribah Rose ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Real World ◽  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Pedro Almodovar ◽  
The Real ◽  
Close Analysis

This article engages in a close analysis of community across the films of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar. What emerges from this is that while Almodóvar has a strong subversive streak, his films are deeply concerned with questions about how we might live together in the best way possible. Drawing on the feminist ethics of care—with its emphasis on the maternal as an ethical model—and the work of Jean-Luc Nancy, I argue that Almodóvar’s preferred communities are “communities of circumstance,” best conceptualized as dynamic networks of relations that respond directly to the varied needs of their members. Rather than fitting any fixed social boundaries, they emerge organically from lived experience. Ultimately, I conclude that Almodóvar’s films not only offer screen representations of communities of circumstance, but might contribute to our understanding of what it means to live in community in the “real world.”

Overview of Psychiatric Ethics II: Virtue Ethics and the Ethics of Care

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Robertson ◽  
Garry Walter
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care

Medical and Nursing Ethics: Never the Twain?

1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Health Care Ethics ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Caring Relationship

Since the publication of Carol Gilligan's In a different voice in 1982, there has been much discussion about masculine and feminine approaches to ethics. It has been suggested that an ethics of care, or a feminine ethics, is more appropriate for nursing practice, which contrasts with the 'traditional, masculine' ethics of medicine. It has been suggested that Nel Noddings' version of an 'ethics of care' (or feminine ethics) is an appropriate model for nursing ethics. The 'four principles' approach has become a popular model for medical or health care ethics. It will be suggested in this article that, whilst Noddings presents an interesting analysis of caring and the caring relationship, this has limitations. Rather than acting as an alternative to the 'four principles' approach, the latter is necessary to provide a framework to structure thinking and decision-making in health care. Further, it will be suggested that ethical separatism (that is, one ethics for nurses and one for doctors) in health care is not a progressive step for nurses or doctors. Three recommendations are made: that we promote a health care ethics that incorporates what is valuable in a 'traditional, masculine ethics', the why (four principles approach) and an 'ethics of care', the 'how' (aspects of Noddings' work and that of Urban Walker); that we encourage nurses and doctors to participate in the 'shared learning' and discussion of ethics; and that our ethical language and concerns are common to all, not split into unhelpful dichotomies.

A Feminist Practical Ethics of Care

2018 ◽  
pp. 558-572
Author(s):  
Fiona Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Moral Framework ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Practical Ethics ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Care Practices ◽  
The Voice

This chapter builds a picture of a critical, feminist ethics of care as a feminist practical ethics for international relations. It focuses on care ethics as a moral framework for addressing the challenges of humanitarianism—in a manner that foregrounds human needs while not depoliticizing or taking for granted the category of “human.” A care ethics approach furthers the transformative aims of feminism, while refusing to cast “women-and-children” as vulnerable victims in need of protection. The ethics of care also offers a substantive focus for policy and practice around diverse and competing needs for care. Far from confining women to their roles as carers, this approach exposes patterns of gender inequality in care practices, while retaining a focus on the contribution of the voice and labour of care—in multiple and diverse forms—for all social groups and communities.

scholarly journals Humanitarian Communication Through the Lens of Feminist Ethics of Care

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Houda Houbeish
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Feminist Ethics ◽  
Role Morality ◽  
Humanitarian Ethics ◽  
The Common

Ethics are the driving force of the humanitarian field, a domain that has been governed by general and universal ethical principles. Researchers have largely focused on studying the organizational commitment to these principles, paying less attention to the role-specific ethics of this field. Moreover, researchers who consider the humanitarian field from a media studies lens have often focused on media representation, while questions about communication as practice are sidelined. In this paper, I approach humanitarian ethics with a particular focus on role morality and communication practices. With a particular focus on the role of a humanitarian communications specialist, I argue, in this paper, that the feminist ethics of care is a useful ethical framework that can guide communication specialists to better practices when they are in the field of operation. I also answer the following research questions: What are the main ethical principles that humanitarian communication specialists are expected to observe as humanitarians? Why are these principles insufficient? How might feminist ethics of care fill the gap left by current humanitarian principles and what would be the added value of this framework for practicing humanitarian communication? To answer, I ground my approach in an experiential understanding built from my personal experience as a humanitarian communications specialist. Second, I offer a literature review to highlight the common ground between humanitarian ethics and the feminist ethics of care and the added value of the feminist ethics of care why applied by humanitarian communication specialists. Third, I provide some examples of communications practices that may follow the feminist ethics of care model.  

scholarly journals Incest as a private/social conundrum: A brief analysis of Atlıkarınca movie and the mother’s reaction to the incestuous husband within the context of Ethics of Care

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 2257
Author(s):  
Betül Minnet
Keyword(s):  
Social Reality ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Penal Code ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
Carol Gilligan ◽  
Dead End

Incest, which is also the main theme of the movie Atlıkarınca (2011) (Merry-Go-Round), has been observed both in ancient and modern societies. As a lathomenon, despite mostly being kept as a secret, it has been one of the most brutal realities and practices of families and societies for centuries. Even though many countries have their own prohibitive laws regarding the issue, in Turkey it is still considered a taboo, and in Turkish Penal Code there is no article openly discussing incest. For this respect, Atlıkarınca can be thought as a brave step for bringing up the topic into the scene as a private and social dead-end and a conundrum. The movie reveals the physical and psychological demolition that incest brings to a family, and leaves questions in the viewers’ minds about whether the mother’s way of handling the situation is righteous or not. Also, since the movie is about a social reality, it serves as a documentary both by reflecting a social reality and symbolic narration. In the light of these, this study aims to analyze the movie in terms of social and legal deficiencies and problems in law and society and seeks to explain the mother’s reaction to the incestuous father within the context of Ethics of Care as developed by the American Feminist writers Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings.

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