CLD 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Agency, Paternalism, Virtue Ethics

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Early Childhood Studies
• Course: CLD 500
• Professor: Rachel Langford

Document Summary

Cld 500 a caring world for children. Held states, practices of care should express the caring relations that bring people closer together, and they do so in ways that are progressively more morally satisfactory. Caring practices should gradually transform children and others into human beings who are increasingly morally admirable (chapter 2: caring relations) Noddings states, there are two parties in a caring relation: a carer and a cared for. Each contributes distinctively to the relation. (chapter 2: carer & cared-for) If a person cannot demonstrate caring in relations with others or in practice then he or she is not a caring person (at least for a particular encounter or episode) Caring as relational helps us recognize pathologies of caring and pseudocaring as well as differences in power between the carer and the cared-for. To listen and watch to understand and feel with the other (rather than for our own purposes).