Relation, Virtue, and Relational Virtue: Three Concepts of Caring

Hypatia ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirong Luo
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
Agent Based

This essay breaks new ground in defending the view that contemporary care-based ethics and early Confucian ethics share some important common ground. Luo also introduces the notion of relational virtue in an attempt to bridge a conceptual gap between relational caring ethics and agent-based virtue ethics, and to make the connections between the ethics of care and Confucian ethics philosophically clearer and more defensible.

Do Confucians Really Care? A Defense of the Distinctiveness of Care Ethics: A Reply to Chenyang Li

Hypatia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Star
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Care Ethics ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Confucian Ethics

Chenyang Li argues, in an article originally published in Hypatia, that the ethics of care and Confucian ethics constitute similar approaches to ethics. The present paper takes issue with this claim. It is more accurate to view Confucian ethics as a kind of virtue ethics, rather than as a kind of care ethics. In the process of criticizing Li's claim, the distinctiveness of care ethics is defended, against attempts to assimilate it to virtue ethics.

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

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.  

Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Tiwald
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Confucian Ethics ◽  
Right Action ◽  
Explanatory Priority ◽  
The Relationship

In this chapter the author defends the view that the major variants of Confucian ethics qualify as virtue ethics in the respects that matter most, which concern the focus, investigative priority, and explanatory priority of virtue over right action. The chapter also provides short summaries of the central Confucian virtues and then explains how different Confucians have understood the relationship between these and what some regard as the chief or most comprehensive virtue, ren (humaneness or benevolence). Finally, it explicates what most Confucians take to be a requirement of all virtues, which the author calls “wholeheartedness,” and concludes by highlighting some neglected implications of the wholeheartedness requirement for ethics more generally. These include reasons for linking conceptions of virtue and human nature, for thinking that good character necessitates that individuals change how things seem to them, and for endorsing automatic as opposed to intensively deliberative judgments and decisions.

Hutchesonian Inspired Agent‐Based Virtue Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-504
Author(s):  
Scott Gelfand
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Agent Based

Against Agent-Based Virtue Ethics

2004 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Brady
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Agent Based

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.

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