ケアの倫理と社会政策 Starting at Home : Caring and Social Policy

Noddings, Nel

Univ of California Pr（2002/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 366 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520225565
• DDC分類 171.8

基本説明

Tackling issues such as capital punishment, mental illness, and abortion, Noddings inverts traditional philosophical priorities to show how an ethic of care can have implications for social and political thought.

Full Description

Nel Noddings, one of the central figures in the contemporary discussion of ethics and moral education, argues that caring - a way of life learned at home - can be extended into a theory that guides social policy. Tackling issues such as capital punishment, drug treatment, homelessness, mental illness, and abortion, Noddings inverts traditional philosophical priorities to show how an ethic of care can have profound and compelling implications for social and political thought. Instead of beginning with an ideal state and then describing a role for home and family, this book starts with an ideal home and asks how what is learned there may be extended to the larger social domain. Noddings examines the tension between freedom and equality that characterized liberal thought in the 20th century and finds that - for all its strengths - liberalism is still inadequate as social policy. She suggests instead that an attitude of attentive love in the home induces a corresponding responsiveness that can serve as a foundation for social policy. With her characteristic sensitivity to the individual and to the vulnerable in society, the author concludes that any corrective practice that does more h