Care and Moral Theory

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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Care ethics has long been contrasted with moral theories like deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics. Yet, the characteristics that distinguish care ethics from deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics are some of very characteristics that philosophers usually associate with moral theory per se. If care ethics departs from other moral theories on some of the very grounds that define moral theory itself, the question arises: Is care ethics a moral theory? If so, what kind of a moral theory is it?Drawing together some of the world’s leading care theorists, Care and Moral Theory addresses these questions. Early chapters situate care ethics in relation to other moral theories and highlight its unique methods and aims. Middle chapters offer analytical clarity to key concepts in the moral theory of care. A final set of chapters offer a whole new framework for thinking about care ethics. Despite the diversity of perspectives included in this book, the chapters as a whole are all oriented around the common project of elucidating the characteristics of a moral theory of care.Care and Moral Theory offers an accessible entry point for anyone interested in the nature of care ethics. By clarifying its relation to other moral theories and highlighting its differences, it makes evident what is distinct and important about this increasingly popular moral theory.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-16
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:306
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032979236

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Daniel Engster is a Professor in the Hobby School of Public Affairs and Associate Director of the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership. His research focuses on care ethics, relational egalitarianism, and public policy. His books include The Heart of Justice: Care Ethics and Political Theory; Justice, Care, and the Welfare State; and Care Ethics and Political Theory.Steven Steyl is Lecturer in Bioethics at the University of Notre Dame Australia and an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland. His research lies mainly in the areas of normative ethics, applied ethics, and political theory, and has appeared in a variety of journals and edited volumes including The Philosophical Quarterly, Hypatia, and Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions (Peeters, 2022).

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Introduction. Part I: Situating Care Ethics 1. The Ethics of Care as a Moral Theory 2. The Avoidance of Care: On the Moral Entwinement of Feminist Care Ethics and Feminist Critical Theory 3. Care Ethics as an Anti-Theory Moral Theory 4. The Novelty of Care Ethics Part II: Expanding and Enriching Care Ethics 5. The Continued Relevance of Care Ethics to Care Theory 6. Care Ethics and Moral Principles 7. The Grounds and Scope of Caring Obligations 8. Grounding Care: On Commitment, Normative Justification, and the Relational Regulative Ideal in Noddings’ Caring 9. Levinas and the Ontological Foundations of Intergenerational Care Ethics Part III: Beyond Traditional Moral Theory 10. An Ethics of Not-Knowing: Care, Epistemic Vulnerability, and Radical Hope 11. Care and Moral Theory 12. Ethics Writ Large: Care Theory as a Process Moral Aesthetic 13. The Poetics of Care-Based Knowing: Phulkari, Motherhood, and a Transnational Approach to Culturally-Safe Care Conclusion 14. Conclusion: Care Ethics: Does This Change Everything?