Constituted by a distinctive set of framing concepts and a distinctive set of reflective skills, the morality of care is not translatable into the morality of justice that Gilligan's predecessors had taken to be the gauge of moral development.
I am merely asking the question "where has the morality of care gone?" Research has demonstrated that in order to gain trust you must be able to show three core elements.
But it is difficult to believe that morality can properly or plausibly be confined to intimate relations of caring.
Dickens' works are full of morality tales about caring for the poor, the plight of child labor, the pitfalls of greed, and the importance of neighborly love.
The works of Noddings and Gilligan indirectly draw attention to this distinction by emphasizing an ethics of care in contrast to an ethics of justice in accounting for morality [ 21, 22].
Ethics of care, also called care ethics, feminist philosophical perspective that uses a relational and context-bound approach toward morality and decision making.
The term ethics of care refers to ideas concerning both the nature of morality and normative ethical theory.
Re "Mining Medicare: How One Hospital Benefited From Questionable Surgery" (front page, Aug. 12): The Tenet Healthcare fiasco makes clear the dubious morality of profit-oriented health care and the unsustainability of the third-party payer system.
Most research on moral identities conceptualizes morality exclusively in terms of care and justice, but work from across the social sciences indicates that these represent only a corner of the moral landscape.
"It's all a matter of people caring and having some morality about what they do," he said.
