EthicsofCare-CabrilloCollege.pdfVIP

Cabrillo College Philosophy 10 – Ethics Claudia Close Introduction to the Ethic of Care There is a current debate over whether the Ethic of Care is a genuinely new approach to ethics or whether it is a re-articulation of a virtue ethic; In the Ethic of Care, one seeks to develop a skill at giving care appropriately all the while balancing the amount of care necessary to sustain oneself. Since there is a goal: “To care and to be cared for,”1 it might even be thought of as having a consequentialist appeal. There are certainly aspects of a deontological Kantian approach: not only is respect for p