Nel Noddings' Theory of Ethics of Care and Its Problems

Philosophy and Culture 32 (3):95-109 (2005)
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This article is by Noordin care to think about ethical point of view of feminist ethics, first discuss the background of the development of Notting care ethics: ethics of care discourse ethics, said the traditional mainstream of criticism; with the characteristics of feminist thinking, with its attention to the feelings, attitudes and relationships of ideas, different from the traditional emphasis on ethics, rationality, reasoning and principles of the moral arguments, followed by the description of the contents of care ethics, character and methods, as well as comment on the advantages and disadvantages ethics of care, and with the post-modern narrative discussion of comparison. In this article, I intend to inquiry onto Nel Noddings' ethics of care, one of the important theoretical bases of feminist. From a feminine viewpoint, Nel Noddings compares feminine feeling with masculine reason, compares attitude with reasoning and compares relation with principle in order to show the feminine alterative approach to ethics. I explore the theory of Nel Noddings' ethics of care and research on its problems. In conclusion, I make critics on the ethics of care and compare it with postmodern narrative inquiry

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