PHIL 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Virtue Ethics
12 Apr 2017
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Care ethics continued: relationality is where care ethics comes from. It is an ontological claim which states relations are implicit: care ethics is based on inter-being . People suffer, challenge, and be happy together: care ethics does not call for individual acts of kindness and caring. Rather it is that if we believe in the ontological claim, and we understand this claim it then automatically diminished suffering. We shrink our egos and develop an empathy for others. Then if we live by this perspective, we will live in an empathetic more caring world, by way of people caring for themselves. People who attempt to care can be oppressively misunderstood: this is if they don"t understand the relationality aspect, caring as oppressive. Someone says they"re trying to help but really they"re wildly off base: care ethics calls us to recognize the real needs of others. We need to truly understand what kind of caring seems right.
