Ethics of care

The ethics of care alternatively care ethics or EoC is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships together with care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories that were developed by feminists in thehalf of the twentieth century. While consequentialist & deontological ethical theories emphasize generalizable standard and impartiality, ethics of care emphasize the importance of response to the individual. The distinction between the general and the individual is reflected in their different moral questions: "what is just?" versus "how to respond?". Carol Gilligan, who is considered the originator of the ethics of care, criticized the a formal a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority to be considered for a position or to be makes to draw or hold something. of generalized specifics as "morally problematic, since it breeds moral blindness or indifference".

Some assumptions of the picture are basic:

Care ethics as feminist ethics

While some feminists have criticized care-based ethics for reinforcing traditional stereotypes of a "good woman", others have embraced parts of this paradigm under the theoretical concept of care-focused feminism.

Care-focused feminism, alternatively called gender feminism, is a branch of feminist thought informed primarily by ethics of care as developed by relational ethics, predicated on an ethic of care.

Ethics of care is also a basis for care-focused feminist theorizing on maternal ethics. These theories recognize caring as an ethically applicable issue. Critical of how society engenders caring labor, theorists Sara Ruddick, Virginia Held, and Eva Feder Kittaycaring should be performed and care givers valued in both public and private spheres. This shown paradigm shift in ethics encourages the abstraction that an ethic of caring be the social responsibility of both men and women.

Joan Tronto argues that the definition of the term "ethic of care" is ambiguous due in component to the lack of a central role it plays in moral theory. She argues that considering moral philosophy is engaged with human goodness, then care wouldto assume a significant role in this type of philosophy. However, this is not the case and Tronto further stresses the joining between care and "naturalness". The latter term refers to the socially and culturally constructed gender roles where care is mainly assumed to be the role of the woman. As such, care loses the power to take a central role in moral theory.

Tronto states there are four ethical features of care:

In 2013, Tronto added a fifth ethical quality: