Caring
Subtitle: a relational approach to ethics & moral education
By: Nel Noddings
Edition: Second edition, updated.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berkeley, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780520275706; 9780520957343
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Caring; Mitgefühl; Moral and ethical aspects; Psychology; Feminist ethics; Moral education; Ethics; Women; Feministische Ethik
Description: "Supplementing her rich theoretical discussion with numerous examples, Nel Noddings builds a compelling philosophical argument for an ethics based on natural caring, as in the care of a mother for her child. In Caring -- now updated with a new preface and afterword reflecting on the ongoing relevance of the subject matter -- Noddings provides a wide-ranging consideration of whether institutions and large organizations, which operate at a remove from the caring relationship, can truly be called ethical. She discusses the extent to which we may truly care for plants, animals, or ideas. Finally, she proposes a realignment of education to encourage and reward not just rationality and trained intelligence, but also enhanced sensitivity in moral matters"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Previous edition published as: Caring : a feminine approach to ethics & moral education. 1984.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the 2013 edition; title: Preface to the 2003 edition; title: Introduction; title: 1. Why care about caring?. The fundamental nature of caring ; What does it mean to care? ; Problems arising in the analysis of one-caring ; The cared-for ; Aesthetical caring ; Caring and acting ; Ethics and caring; title: 2. The one-caring. Receiving ; Thinking and feeling: turning points ; Guilt and courage ; Women and caring ; Circles and chains ; Asymmetry and reciprocity in caring ; The ethical ideal and the ethical self ; Rules and conflicts; title: 3. The cared-for. The one-caring's attitude and its effects ; Apprehension of caring necessary to the caring relationship: unequal meetings ; Reciprocity ; The ethics of being cared for; title: 4. An ethic of caring. From natural to ethical caring ; Obligation ; Right and wrong ; The problem of justification ; Women and morality: virtue ; The toughness of caring; title: 5. Construction of the ideal. The nature of the ideal ; Constraints and attainability ; Diminished ethical capacity ; Nurturing the ideal ; Maintaining the ideal; title: 6. Enhancing the ideal: joy. Our basic reality and affect ; How should we describe emotion? ; Perception and emotion: the object of emotion and its appraisal ; Emotions as reasons ; Joy as exalted ; Receptivity and joy in intellectual work ; Joy as basic affect; title: 7. Caring for animals, plants, things and ideas. Our relation with animals ; Our relation to plants ; Things and ideas ; Summary; title: 8. Moral education. What is moral education? ; The one-caring as teacher ; Dialogue ; Practice ; Confirmation ; Organizing schools for caring; title: Afterword.