The responsibilities of reason: Kant and care

Title: The responsibilities of reason: Kant and care
Identifier: d_2009_2013:4bdfbfa5678d:11089
identifier: 11296
Creator: O'Dowd, Ornaith,
Contributor: Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach
Date: 2011
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Philosophy | Ethics
Abstract: I argue that care, as a moral value and a practice of moral significance, should have a place in Kantian ethics. There is neither and ethic of care nor an ethic of justice as such but rather simply ethics, which includes care and justice, as well as other values. Kantian ethics has been criticized in the care literature for allegedly devaluing emotion, exalting abstraction over attention to context, and offering a flawed conception of persons. I argue that a close reading of Kant's texts reveals these objections to be unsuccessful. I show how care can be understood in a Kantian theoretical framework. Finally, I examine care as a political value and the caring society as a model of social, political, and economic organization.
Type: dissertation
Source: 2009_2013.csv
degree: Ph.D.
Program: Philosophy