Tags & Description
care defined
Held defines care as both a practice et a value.
care as a practice
• something we do as set of actions that responds to the wellbeing and needs of the person. • The practice is complete in the process of maintaining and creating those core relationships.
care as a value
• Something good and in practice can be done better or worse. • In its form as a value care is set a normative expression in how we take responsibility for others. • And it is also an evaluative practice in which there is relfection of on the care we are giving but also receiving.
self defined
Having a relational and interdependent connection with others. • For instance, this is an example of the ties we share with family and friends. It is the fact that our core relationships define and mold our identity, because we enter the world in being in relation to someone, aka our parents.
Moral salience of a relationship is what
The moral salience of relationships expresses the importance of how and why we have relations with others.
the importance of moral salience
It the core of Ethics of Care is the sharing relations with others and providing moral components to such relationships. It entails the obligation that caring is something that we “ought to do”. • It done not only out of the goodness of doing something for that personally relationship, but is also a place where we learn how to best to act and foster those relations.
is there only amoral obligations to those for whom we currently care?
NO, there a moral obligation to care for others
why there a moral obligation to care for others
While it is important to care for those who we are personally connected to, we should use our existing relations as a model to care for others. It teaches us how to care well, identify what’s right to do, and best to do. It is about extending the moral insights outward to the community.
moral universalism
Applied in a universal context which is rationally application of moral principles. It is be followed in the context of the rules defined and should be applied in the same way. Additionally, it is independent of from the influence of people’s relations, thoughts, and emotions.
Moral universalism aims at
Being impartial and objective by removing the subjective inclinations listed above.
Moral particularism
A an abstract and universal set of rules that are not always the best way to understand moral obligations. It is oversimplified in the context of everything and treats each case as the same, in a cookie cutter form.
• Which of these two approaches to moral questions belongs to care ethics?
o Care ethics is a version of moral particularism in a more contextual way.
how is Care ethics is a version of moral particularism in a more contextual way.
o it does this by looking at the particulars of the situation and not in a cookie cutter mold. o In this version care ethics identifies the morally relevant features of the situtation towards the particular relations and answers vary based on the context.
dominant moral theory says about moral partiality?
o Overall say it is improperly based on favoritism and self-interest. o That moral partiality shews the persons moral judgment and it introduces irrelevant interest and irrationality.
• Held response to DMT
Is that moral partiality is appropriate ,when someone needs to consider particular people and the intertwining interest This is defined when an actors interest are bound to he act of the person being cared for. While it is often mistaken for being defined as selfish, this act is inseparable because the actions taken for the other person but also for the self.
will to truth”
o is the place where our faith, morality, and desires come from. o It is this one specific drive that is something that pushes our actions and has reasons behind it.
• viewing life through the lens of “true and false” and “good and evil” requires?
Thinking in terms of opposites, that it must be a choice of either/or. This limits the interpretation of the situation and limits the choices a person can make in a decision. It completely excludes the option of having a both or in between feeling for the situation.
arguing we could become “beyond good and evil?”
to go beyond define morality in the terms of good/evil and true/false. It creates an interpretation that is more colorful instead of seeing in black et white. the ultmate creation of a new morality that ask what the value means or do what the individual.
nihilism
• is defined as nothing having meaning or value. • That life has no meaning or purpose and everything is meaningless and exist in nothingness
Nietzsche views nihilism
• Does not advocate or support it. • But he sees it as an invitation or opportunity for people to create meanings and values for themselves.
• there is meaning or value in life, where should it come from
• is something that cannot be found, but something that you make or actively create. • It is be something that empowers the self to judge other standard values and not be in reference to the set moral standards.
explain the “reevaluation of all values
• it is about taking considering all the current and possible values that someone might hold and asking if they hold anything meaningful. • It is about evaluating the whole spectrum of experience and whether or not it gives the person meaning, value or fullness.
new evaluation to judge our experiences
• does not look at what is considered to be universal true or moral. • Instead it looks at how it makes the person feel, react, or what is life affirming. • It about what is makes the experience more colorful and joyful for that person.