Feminist Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy

• Other Authors: Hamington, Maurice (Editor), FitzGerald, Maggie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Humanities; Social interaction; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; actor-network theory; Anthropocene; Bruno Latour; care ethics; hesitation; Gaia; hiatus; modes of existence; relationality; translation; John Locke; toleration; liberalism; feminism; trustworthiness; civility; Anna Galeotti; recognition; neutrality; care; commun world; plurality; critical care ethics; existentialism; Simone de Beauvoir; paternalism; existentialist ethics; western-centric approaches in care; transnational feminism; Slavoj Žižek; feminist theory; G.W.F. Hegel; subjectivity; vulnerability; Edith Stein; personalism; empathy; emotions; caring; phenomenology; Jacques Rancière; Carol Gilligan; politics; Fanon; colonialism; violence; harm; ontology; attention; perception; ethics; ethics of care; Merleau-Ponty; ethical motivation; the amoralist; corporeality; the body; biopolitics; deconstruction; ethics of needs; interpersonal justification; contract theory; care theory; constructivism; intersectionality; women of color feminism; critical care theory; the arrow of care map; John Rawls; moral philosophy; Wittgenstein L.; Diamond C.; Gilligan C.; ordinary language philosophy; n/a
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This Special Issue of Philosophies is devoted to dialogue between feminist care ethics and mainstream philosophical figures and concepts. As care ethics has evolved from its origins in the 1980s, it is clear that it does not always fit neatly within traditional philosophical categories. Yet, the phi...