Some concerns about Nel Noddings' caring

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Some Concerns About Nel Noddings’Caring Page 1 REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Some
Concerns About Nel Noddings’ Caring SARAH LUCIA HOAGLAND Nel Noddings argues that
hers is nor an ethics of agape. I want to argue, on the contrary, that it is, and that this is a
problem. My central thesis is that the unidirectional nature of the analysis of one-caring
remfmces oppressive institutions. Nel Noddings’ book, Caring (1984), has many fine points.’
Perhaps most important is her shift of the source of ethical sentiment from rules to natural …
Nel Noddings argues that hers is not an ethics of agape. I want to argue, on the contrary, that it is, and that this is a problem. My central thesis is that the unidirectional nature of the analysis of one-caring reinforces oppressive institutions.
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