Eight sub-categories are included: care ethics, ethics of eros, critiques of individualism, ethical & political theory, families & friendship, self-respect, social groups, and violence & self.
Like other feminists who do care ethics, Held thinks the values central to feminist care ethics should be just as present in the public realm as the private realm.
Noddings has noted that "care ethics" does not support absolute pacifism, since care-givers may in rare circumstances kill in order to defend those they love.
Two, although Addams employed caring in response to the needs of others, she contributes an active, even assertive, dimension to care ethics not commonly found in feminist theory.
And that gives us some reason to question such views and look to care ethics for a possibly more adequate conception of what justice, both in society and in individuals, actually requires.
Instead, Williams suggests, we should care about ethics, where ethics is understood to address the most general question of how we ought to live.
Care ethics focuses on the ethical significance of relationships formed through dependency, such as those between caregivers and their charges.
Waiting lists are also an issue in health care ethics since they relate to the underlying ethical principle of justice.
Another good example of social-difference feminism is care ethics, which was originally developed as an alternative to mainstream ethical theory, has been harnessed to counter liberal political theory (Gilligan 1982; Held 1995).
(Noddings, Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, 1984) In Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy (2002), Noddings extends the principles of her feminist care ethics into the arena of public policy.
