Feminism and the Ethics of Care.pptx

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Feminism and the

Ethics of Care


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Are women and

men equal?


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Do women and men

think differently

about ethics?


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That difference, isreal or is it just a

prejudice to justifysubjugating women

to men?


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What does the videomake us think?

What idea does this

video disprove?


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Lets consider

Kohlbergs

studies andfindings using

the HeinzsDilemma


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"In Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer.

There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It

was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had

recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but thedruggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make.

He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose

of the drug.

The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to

borrow the money, but he could only get together about $ 1,000

which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was

dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the

druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make

money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's

store to steal the drug-for his wife. Should the husband have done

that?" (Kohlberg, 1963).


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Pre-conventional Level

Stage of Punishment and

Obedience

Stage of IndividualInstrumental Purpose and

Exchange


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Conventional Level

Stage of Mutual InterpersonalExpectations, Relationships,and Conformity

Stage of Social System and

Conscience Maintenance


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Post-conventional Level:

Stage of Prior Rights and

Social Contract or UtilityStage of Universal

Ethical Principles


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Amy & Jake

They should really just talk

it out and find some other

way to make the money

Heinz should steal the drug.

A human life is worth more

than money


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Gilligans Objection

Is an ethic of principle

superior to an ethic that

emphasizes intimacy,caring, and personal

relationships? Why

should we make any

such assumption?


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Gilligan suggests that

womans basic moralorientation is caring for

others -taking care of

others in a personalway, not just being

concerned for humanity

in general- and

attending to their

needs.


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Is it true that women and men

think differently about ethics?

1. Even if they do think differently, the

differences cannot be very great: they will be

differences of emphasis, rather thandifferences in fundamental values.

2. The difference in moral thinking could be like

that: Women might tipically be moreattracted to a caring perspective even though

not every woman is more caring than every

man.


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What Could Account for Such a Difference

between the Sexes?

Women think differently

because of the social role

to which they are assigned

Womens nature as

mothers somehow makes

them natural caregivers


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Implications for moral

judgment


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The ethics of care is perfectly

suited to describe family andfriends relations, because it

begins with a conception of

moral life as a network of

relationships with specificother people, and it sees

living well as caring for

those people, attending to

their needs, and keepingfaith with them


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Implications for moral judgment

2. The ethical life must include

both caring personalrelationships and a benevolent

concern for people generally.

The ethics of care will need to

connect love with obligation.

3. The ethics of care doesnt

offer a solid foundation for ourmoral concern to nonhuman

animals.


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Implications for ethical theoryTwo kinds of ethical theory:

1) Being a certain kind ofperson.

2) Doing ones duty.

The ethics of care is close to Virtue

Theory: being a moral person

means having certain traits of

character: being kind, generous,courageous, just, prudent; being

loving, loyal, and dependable.

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