Caring : a relational approach to ethics & moral education /

• Main Author: Noddings, Nel, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2013]
• Edition: Second edition, updated
• Subjects: Caring > Moral and ethical aspects.; Ethics.; Feminist ethics.; Women > Psychology.; Moral education.; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy; PHILOSOPHY / Social; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies; Electronic books.
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"Supplementing her rich theoretical discussion with numerous examples, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. In Caring -- now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing rel...

Table of Contents:

• Preface to the 2013 edition
• Preface to the 2003 edition
• Introduction
• 1. Why care about caring?. The fundamental nature of caring ; What does it mean to care? ; Problems arising in the analysis of one-caring ; The cared-for ; Aesthetical caring ; Caring and acting ; Ethics and caring
• 2. The one-caring. Receiving ; Thinking and feeling: turning points ; Guilt and courage ; Women and caring ; Circles and chains ; Asymmetry and reciprocity in caring ; The ethical ideal and the ethical self ; Rules and conflicts
• 3. The cared-for. The one-caring's attitude and its effects ; Apprehension of caring necessary to the caring relationship: unequal meetings ; Reciprocity ; The ethics of being cared for
• 4. An ethic of caring. From natural to ethical caring ; Obligation ; Right and wrong ; The problem of justification ; Women and morality: virtue ; The toughness of caring
• 5. Construction of the ideal. The nature of the ideal ; Constraints and attainability ; Diminished ethical capacity ; Nurturing the ideal ; Maintaining the ideal
• 6. Enhancing the ideal: joy. Our basic reality and affect ; How should we describe emotion? ; Perception and emotion: the object of emotion and its appraisal ; Emotions as reasons ; Joy as exalted ; Receptivity and joy in intellectual work ; Joy as basic affect
• 7. Caring for animals, plants, things and ideas. Our relation with animals ; Our relation to plants ; Things and ideas ; Summary
• 8. Moral education. What is moral education? ; The one-caring as teacher ; Dialogue ; Practice ; Confirmation ; Organizing schools for caring
• Afterword.