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Justice and Care in Close Relationships

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Jasminka Udovicki
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Abstract

The essay examines the impartialist view of justice as the first virtue of all relationships. I argue that in close associations where duties, obligations, and rights of persons are situationally contingent, abstract principles of justice fail to yield a unified moral perspective about what is fair. Solidarity and trust as moral emotions develop more complex moral competencies that go beyond what principles of justice alone require.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 48 - 60
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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