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Toward an Ecological Ethic of Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Deane Curtin
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Abstract

This paper argues that the language of rights cannot express distinctively ecofeminist insights into the treatment of nonhuman animals and the environment. An alternative is proposed in the form of a politicized ecological ethic of care which can express ecofeminist insights. The paper concludes with consideration of an ecofeminist moral issue: how we choose to understand ourselves morally in relation to what we are willing to count as food. “Contextual moral vegetarianism” represents a response to a politicized ecological ethic of care.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Ecological Feminism , Spring 1991 , pp. 60 - 74
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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