scholarly journals The Feelings We Feel: Care and Community in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Riley Valentine
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ethics Of Caring ◽  
Communal Ethics

Abstract Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood was a show that focused on teaching children an ethics of caring for oneself and care for others. This article examines those ethics through the songs “I Like You As You Are” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor.” It contends that these songs focus on a celebration of the self and others, welcoming individuals as they are into the community, and embracing authenticity. This article looks to understand these ethics in a contemporary setting and argues that Mister Rogers and the communal ethics of care that he taught are needed.

scholarly journals Compassion, ethics of care and legal rights

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Herring
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Caring Relationships ◽  
Legal Requirement ◽  
Relational Analysis ◽  
Appropriate Care

AbstractThis paper will explore the difficulties facing law in promoting compassion and responding to caring relationships. These include the difficulties in determining whether a person has demonstrated compassion and in enforcing any legal requirement for compassion. The paper will use the ethics-of-care literature to critique two key legal tools: human rights and the concept of best interests. These concepts are typically designed to promote individualistic abstract understandings of the self, which are problematic when used in the setting of intimate relationships. However, this paper will suggest that it might not be necessary to abandon the concepts of rights and best interests. They may be useful for setting the boundaries for a space in which appropriate care and compassion can be exercised. It will also be suggested that both rights and best interests are not immune from a relational analysis and might, with appropriate modification, be used to promote the exercise of compassionate relational care.

scholarly journals The goal of education: spirituality or an intellectualism? An alternative to care of the self

2021 ◽  
Vol XII (2(35)) ◽  
pp. 185-194
Author(s):  
Hanna Stępniewska-Gębik
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Of The Self ◽  
Ethical Attitude ◽  
The World ◽  
Appropriate Practices ◽  
The Way

This article deals with the dilemma related to the purpose of upbringing. M. Foucault's concept of care of the self and J. Patočka's works allow us to ask questions about the goal of education. Is it to become an intellectual or a spiritual person? The possibility of such a distinction is embedded in the ethics of care of the self, an ancient tradition, which even nowadays, among others, thanks to P. Sloterdijk or Foucault himself, has become an important category. An ethical attitude towards the self opens the way to spirituality through a set of appropriate practices. It becomes the basis for relations with others and with the world.

scholarly journals IX—Nurture and Parenting in Aristotelian Ethics

2019 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia M Connell
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Conflicts Of Interests ◽  
Aristotelian Ethics ◽  
Core Part

Abstract For Aristotle, in making the deliberate choice to incorporate the extensive requirements of the young into the aims of one’s life, people realize their own good. In this paper I will argue that this is a promising way to think about the ethics of care and parenting. Modern theories, which focus on duty and obligation, direct our attention to conflicts of interests in our caring activities. Aristotle’s explanation, in contrast, explains how nurturing others not only develops a core part of the self but also leads to an appreciation of the value of interpersonal relationships.

Ethics of Caring and the Institutional Ethics Committee

Hypatia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty A. Sichel
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Nel Noddings ◽  
Institutional Ethics ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Ethics Of Caring

Institutional ethics committees (lECs) in health care facilities now create moral policy, provide moral education, and consult with physicians and other health care workers. After sketching reasons for the development of IECs, this paper first examines the predominant moral standards it is often assumed lECs are now using, these standards being neo-Kantian principles of justice and utilitarian principles of the greatest good. Then, it is argued that a feminine ethics of care, as posited by Carol Gilligan and Nel Noddings, is an unacknowledged basis for /EC discussions and decisions. Further, it is suggested that feminine ethics of care can and should provide underlying theoretical tools and standards for lECs.

scholarly journals Worthy Victims

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simron Gill
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Key Factor

This article discusses neoliberalism in the context of humanitarian communication with a particular emphasis placed towards the self. The neoliberal self combines features of entrepreneurship and consumerismwith the contemporary discourse of ‘doing our part’. To combat such criticism, an argument has been advanced that we must be more open to the experiences, histories, cultures, and identities of individuals that are different from ourselves. This does not mean that we should accept injustice in the name of culture. This also does not mean that we should narrow our understanding of difference whereby problems of the other ‘just happen to be’. It does mean, however, that dialogue is a crucial component of understanding needs and realising that not only does justice look different in other communities, but within our highly globalised and capitalist societies no problem is solely self-determined. Self-reflexive knowledge that discloses the sources and limits of power is therefore a key factor in moving away from a system that requires one to be identified as poor. Crucially, what this article hopes to advocate is a form of communication that is centred on a normative ethics of care.

scholarly journals The Kintsugi Art of Care: Unraveling Consent in Ethical Non-Monogamies

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-679
Author(s):  
Beatrice Gusmano
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
The Self ◽  
Personal Choice ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Care Givers ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Queer People ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
Collective Dimension

Making a contribution to the sociology of intimacy, this article aims to present how lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and queer people live their ethical non-monogamous relationships in Italy. Giving great space to the concept of consent through the literature on the ethics of care, I will refer to different conceptualizations of critical consent given by feminist and BDSM communities, spaces in which ethics is based on unveiling power structures through the focus on consent. In fact, the centrality of the collective dimension in embracing ethical non-monogamies appears fundamental, challenging the self-help – and neoliberal – literature according to which polyamory is just a personal choice. Afterwards, I will deepen the concept of care, developing it through its means of communication, attentiveness, responsibility, and responsiveness within relationships. Presented this way, care recognizes us all as interdependent: at the same time, care-givers and care-receivers. I suggest that this interdependency is symbolized by the kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with a mix of golden powder, a representation of the manifold matrix of care, composed of care-giving, care-receiving, and care for oneself.

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