The Ethics of Care and Empathy
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 23, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780415772006
Subjects: Medical ethics; Philosophy / General; General; Philosophy; Caring; Empathy; Feminist ethics
Description: "In The Ethics of Care and Empathy, eminent moral philosopher Michael Slote argues that care ethics presents an important challenge to other ethical traditions and that a philosophically developed care ethics should, and can, offer its own comprehensive view of the whole of morality. Taking inspiration from British moral sentimentalism and drawing on recent psychological literature on empathy, he shows that the use of that notion allows care ethics to develop its own sentimentalist account of respect, autonomy, social justice, and deontology. Furthermore, he argues that care ethics gives a more persuasive account of these topics than theories offered by contemporary Kantian liberalism."--Jacket.