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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.