The ethics of care : personal, political, and global / Virginia Held.
"Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It is relevan...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Summary: | "Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It is relevant to global and political matters as well as to the personal relations that can most clearly exemplify care." "This book introduces Held's version of the ethics of care: its central ideas, its characteristics, and its potential utility. It discusses the feminist roots of this moral approach and why the ethics of care can be a morality with universal appeal. Held examines what we mean by "care," and what a caring person is like."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 211 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0195180992 (alk. paper) |