Rethinking Care Theory

The Practice of Caring and the Obligation to Care

Bibliographic Data

ID12147828
AuthorsDaniel Engster (0000-0002-2336-9471, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume20
Issue3
Pages50-74
Publication date2005-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2979/hyp.2005.20.3.50
OpenAlexW4235563977
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited45

Care theorists have made significant gains over the past twenty-five years in establishing caring as a viable moral and political concept. Nonetheless, the concept of caring remains underdeveloped as a basis for a moral and political philosophy, and there is no fully developed account of our moral obligation to care. This article advances thinking about caring by developing a definition of caring and a theory of obligation to care sufficient to ground a general moral and political philosophy

Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Moral obligation · Moral philosophy · Obligation · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ethics in medical practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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