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AUTONOMY AND EMPATHY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2004

Michael Slote
Affiliation:
Philosophy, University of Miami

Extract

When Carol Gilligan, Nel Noddings, and other ethicists of caring draw the contrast between supposedly masculine and supposedly feminine moral thinking, they put such things as justice, autonomy, and rights together under the first rubric and such things as caring, responsibility for others, and connection together under the second. This division naturally leaves caring ethicists with the issue of how to deal with topics such as justice, autonomy, and rights, but it also leaves defenders of more traditional moral theories (now dubbed “masculine”) with the problem of how to treat (if at all) the sorts of issues that ethicists of caring raise.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2004 Social Philosophy and Policy Foundation

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