The Importance Of Care Ethics

Care Ethics is a combination of virtue and role ethics that promotes the importance of relationships, especially those that are interpersonal, that give guidance to living a moral life. In Care Ethics, a moral person is one who gives care to those that are dependent because caregiving involves some sort of sacrifice. There has to be a balance so that it does not interfere with self-care. For example, Gilligan says that a “moral person is one who helps others; goodness is service, meeting one’s obligations and responsibilities to others, if possible without sacrificing oneself” (Gilligan 66). Care Ethics acknowledges the different roles and responsibilities that every single person has and guides people in their duties and obligations. Instead of seeing emotions as a barrier to morality like Mill and Kant, care ethics revolves around it and says that “the wish not to …show more content…
While Mill and Kant are more individualistic, care ethics concentrates on interpersonal relationships because “we do not become a person without the engagement of other persons-their care, as well as their recognition of the uniqueness and the connectedness of our human agency, and the distinctiveness of our particularly human relations to others and of the world we fashion” (Kittay 568). Care Ethics relationship-based philosophy differs from that of the Utilitarian and Kantian philosophies that focus on universal maxims because Care Ethics is situational depending on the role one has in society. Care Ethics worries on having consideration of