the interpersonal relationship plays a central role in the ethics of care.
the interpersonal relationship plays a central role in the ethics of care.
what relationship plays a central role in the ethics of care?
interpersonal
his theory is characterized as humanism that starts from the "conditio humana", i.e. the common elements of the human condition over time and between cultures. humanism has both an anthropological and an ethical dimension. the anthropological dimension is presented in core normative concepts like (structural) rationality, freedom and responsibility. humanists think that the ability to act and believe and feel based on reasons is essential in order to understand the human condition. this does not however directly imply humanistic ethics. human agency requires the ability to weigh reasons and act upon the result of weighing reasons, but it does not ensure morally acceptable agency. even an officer in a nazi concentration camp may act by weighing reasons. humanistic ethics must discriminate between good and bad reasons, good and bad forms of reasoning, good and bad forms of emotive attitudes. hating somebody because he lives a different life is irrational, as seen in the hatred of homosexuals in a majority heterosexual community, or hatred based on skin colour. the structural account of rationality is optimistic insofar as it assumes that clarifying reasons that strive towardsat intra- and interpersonally coherent agency and belief allow the elimination of bad, misleading reasons of all the three kinds mentioned above (practical, theoretical, and emotive reasons). therefore, the relationship between anthropological humanism and ethical humanism is not deductive, but pragmatic. those who take anthropological humanism seriously tend to embrace a humanistic ethos and those who reject humanistic principles of agency tend to fight against anthropological humanism, expressed in different forms: social darwinism, racism, reductionist naturalism, chauvinist nationalism, discriminating sexism and other forms of anti-humanism. since communication plays a central role in this form of humanism, nida-rümelin presented an account of humanistic semantics.
julian nida-rümelin
joan tronto argues that the definition of the term "ethic of care" is ambiguous due in part to the lack of a central role it plays in moral theory. she argues that considering moral philosophy is engaged with human goodness, then care would appear to assume a significant role in this type of philosophy. however, this is not the case and tronto further stresses the association between care and "naturalness". the latter term refers to the socially and culturally constructed gender roles where care is mainly assumed to be the role of the woman. as such, care loses the power to take a central role in moral theory.
ethics of care