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Rethinking Care Theory: The Practice of Caring and the Obligation to Care

From: Hypatia
Volume 20, Number 3, Summer 2005
pp. 50-74 | 10.1353/hyp.2005.0102

Abstract

Care theorists have made significant gains over the past twenty-five years in establishing caring as a viable moral and political concept. Nonetheless, the concept of caring remains underdeveloped as a basis for a moral and political philosophy, and there is no fully developed account of our moral obligation to care. This article advances thinking about caring by developing a definition of caring and a theory of obligation to care sufficient to ground a general moral and political philosophy.



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