Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education

✍ Scribed by Nel Noddings

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 251
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With numerous examples to supplement her rich theoretical discussion, 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—the author provides a wide-ranging consideration of whether 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.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PREFACE TO THE 2013 EDITION
PREFACE TO THE 2003 EDITION
INTRODUCTION
1. WHY CARE ABOUT CARING?
2. THE ONE-CARING
3. THE CARED-FOR
4. AN ETHIC OF CARING
5. CONSTRUCTION OF THE IDEAL
6. ENHANCING THE IDEAL: JOY
7. CARING FOR ANIMALS, PLANTS, THINGS AND IDEAS
8. MORAL EDUCATION
AFTERWORD
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX