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A Narrative Ethics of Care

If ethics of care deals with the nature of relationships, attentiveness, and understanding particular others, narrativity ought to play a central part. Sometimes, caring simply amounts to working with narratives. In the article I claim that narrativity can even be said to be native to an ethics of c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Paulsen, Jens Erik
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3037473/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21152990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10728-010-0162-8
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Sumario:If ethics of care deals with the nature of relationships, attentiveness, and understanding particular others, narrativity ought to play a central part. Sometimes, caring simply amounts to working with narratives. In the article I claim that narrativity can even be said to be native to an ethics of care. Through an example, I demonstrate how a narrative ethics of care can discern and grasp some moral problems better than the standard theoretical outlooks.