Caring to Know
Subtitle: Comparative Care Ethics, Feminist Epistemology, and the Mah&#257;bh&#257;rata
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780199464760
Subjects: Social service; Feminist ethics; Mahabharata
Description: The Mahābhārata explores the plausibility of care-based epistemology in a comparative key. Investigating the epistemic virtue of care-giving, the work weaves together insights from care ethics, virtue epistemology and a particular reading of the Mahābhārata which, left to themselves, do not appear compatible with one another. Drawing on these traditions, the work goes on to provide a feminist vision of search for truth that is consistent with both ethical relations and interventions for justice.