Comprehending Care
Author | : Tove Pettersen |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780739126165 |
ISBN-13 | : 0739126164 |
Rating | : 4/5 (164 Downloads) |
Download or read book Comprehending Care written by Tove Pettersen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Comprehending Care, Tove Pettersen subjects the ethics of care, as advanced by Carol Gilligan, to a moral-philosophical examination. More precisely, she extracts the philosophical foundation in this ethics, probes its possible implications for moral theory of a more traditional stamp, and explores its normative plausibility. Pettersen exposes several misconceptions of Gilligan's work.