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2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface to the 2013 Edition; Preface to the 2003 Edition; Introduction; 1. Why Care about Caring?; The Fundamental Nature of Caring; What does it Mean to Care?; Problems Arising in the Analysis of One-Caring; The Cared-For; Aesthetical Caring; Caring and Acting; Ethics and Caring; 2. The One-Caring; Receiving; Thinking and Feeling: Turning Points; Guilt and Courage; Women and Caring; Circles and Chains; Asymmetry and Reciprocity in Caring; The Ethical Ideal and the Ethical Self; Rules and Conflicts |
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3. The Cared-ForThe One-Caring's Attitude and its Effects; Apprehension of Caring Necessary to the Caring Relationship; Unequal Meetings; Reciprocity; The Ethics of being Cared for; 4. An Ethic of Caring; From Natural to Ethical Caring; Obligation; Right and Wrong; The Problem of Justification; Women and Morality: Virtue; The Toughness of Caring; 5. Construction of the Ideal; The Nature of the Ideal; Constraints and Attainability; Diminished Ethical Capacity; Nurturing the Ideal; Maintaining the Ideal; 6. Enhancing the Ideal: Joy; Our Basic Reality and Affect; How should we Describe Emotion? |
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Perception and Emotion: The Object of Emotion and its AppraisalEmotions as Reasons; Joy as Exalted; Receptivity and Joy in Intellectual Work; Joy as Basic Affect; 7. Caring for Animals, Plants, Things and Ideas; Our Relation with Animals; Our Relation to Plants; Things and Ideas; Summary; 8. Moral Education; What is Moral Education?; The One-Caring as Teacher; Dialogue; Practice; Confirmation; Organizing Schools for Caring; Afterword; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Moral education.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Gender identity -- Study and teaching.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Noddings, Nel Caring : A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education Berkeley : University of California Press,c2013 9780520275706 |
| ISBN |
9780520957343 |
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0520957342 |
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