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Caring and Exploitation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Barbara Houston
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Abstract

It is not wholly clear the extern to which Nel Nodding intends her ethic of caring to be an ethic that stands on its own in competition with others described by ethical theories. I argue that, given this ambiguity, Nodding' ethic of caring is a dangerous ethic because it can abet exploitation. I consider Noddings'responses to this criticism and conclude that the relational ontology of the ethic cannot rescue it from the charges of abetting exploitation.

Type
Review Symposium
Information
Hypatia , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , Spring 1990 , pp. 115 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 by Hypatia, Inc.

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